On Nov 16, 2007 2:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Nov 16, 8:14 am, Thorsten Kampe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Cope (Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:09:31 -0800 (PST)) > > > > > please tell me what is python.This group is so crowded. > > > > A Python is dangerous snake[1]. This group here mainly consists of > > misguided snake worshippers. You'd better run before they come to your > > place... > > > > Thorsten > > [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythonidae > > Don't listen to him, he was joking. > > "Python" is short for "Monty Python's Flying Circus", > a British television comedy originally from 1969-1971 > (although movies, records, books and Broadway shows > continue to the present). Read the documention, > you'll see numerous references to spam (used in one > of their famous routines) and other Pythonisms. > > Anyway, all the posting in this group is comedy. > If you aren't getting it, run out and buy and study > all the DVD's. When you've reached the point where > you have The Argument Clinic dialogue memorized, > come back here and all this will make sense. > > Just be careful, some of the Python routines aren't > SUPPOSED to make sense ("cabbage crates over the how's > your father"), that's the joke. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > Actually, this answer is the true one, and should be considered authoritative. Thanks, mensanator. P.S. Another "Python" is a programming language invented by Guido van Rossum, which he named after Monty Python. You can see a lot about that at python.org.
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