After too much time coding Python scripts and reading Mark Lutz's Python books, I was inspired to write the following lyrics. For those too young to remember, the tune is that of "Pinball Wizard," by The Who. May it bring you as much joy as it brought me!
I cut my teeth on BASIC At scripting I'm no pawn >From C++ to Java My code goes on and on But I ain't seen nothing like this In any place I've gone That modeling and sim guy Sure codes some mean Python! He knows his dictionaries His exceptions never pass His polymorphic methods Extend each superclass He uses indentation Its lines are clearly drawn That modeling and sim guy Sure codes some mean Python! He's a Python wizard His code just never wrecks A Python wizard He knows simple beats complex How do you think he does it? (I don't know) What makes him so good? He codes with TkInter He can render treble clefs He uses lamdba functions With *args in their defs Defines his module search path Of tuples he's the don That modeling and sim guy Sure codes some mean Python! I thought I was The scripting language king But I just handed My Python crown to him He links in to libraries All optimized in C He always uses docstrings For readability He knows file iterators He bids all bugs begone That modeling and sim guy Sure codes some mean Python! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
