richard wrote: > Having said that, don't forget that Python's name has *nothing to do > with snakes*. Please consider sticking to the original roots of the > language's name: Monty Python's Flying Circus. IIRC, Guido has said a > number of times that he's not fond of using a snake for logos.
Some time ago while cruising a Barnes & Noble I found a Python book I hadn't seen before. I don't remember the title at the moment, and I don't have the book at hand, but the cover had a large python staring down at a small frightened rodent. When I went to check out, the person at the counter was a kind of frumpy librarian type. She looked at the cover and made some snide remark about frightening small children. I thought for a moment about trying to explain to her that the cover art was an inside joke on an inside joke. When I realized how far back I would have to go to unwind all the references, it just didn't seem worth the trouble. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list