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2 unusual facts about Python


Python-Ogre

Newton -- Offers real-world physics simulation, where accuracy and real-world physical parameters are desired over performance and newer features

Snake case

Python, for variable names, function names, and method names


An Instinct for Dragons

Jones then argues against the common hypothesis that dragon myths might be motivated by primitive discoveries of dinosaur fossils (he argues that there are widespread traits of dragons in folklore which are not observable from fossils), and claims that the common traits of dragons seem to be an amalgam of the principal predators of our ancestral hominids, which he names as the raptors, great cats (especially leopards) and pythons.

Boom Bang-a-Bang

The song was the second consecutive entry with a nonsense title to win the contest (after Massiel's triumph in 1968 with "La La La"), and became infamous in the comedy world - most notably inspiring Monty Python's Flying Circus to parody it with "Bing Tiddle-Tiddle Bong" (Python precursor I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again had previously had Bill Oddie do something similar with a song for which the title was rendered entirely in sound effects).

Chinese emigration

Given permission to settle by local tribes after having killed a dangerous python, they converted to Islam and married local women.

Eric Idle Sings Monty Python

Eric Idle Sings Monty Python is a live recording by original Monty Python member Eric Idle performed at the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles in 1999.

Eric Python IDE

Eric alludes to Eric Idle, a member of the group, and IDLE (Python), the standard python IDE shipped with most distributions.

Free Pascal

TorChat is moving away from Python, and is being rewritten in Lazarus and Free Pascal.

Gaohu

It has two strings and its soundbox is covered on the front (playing) end with snakeskin (from a python).

Gay News

Amongst Gay News's early "Special Friends" were Graham Chapman of Monty Python's Flying Circus, his partner David Sherlock, and Antony Grey, secretary of the UK Homosexual Law Reform Society from 1962 to 1970.

Gigantopithecus

However, younger, weak, or injured individuals may have been vulnerable to predation by tigers, pythons, crocodiles, machairodonts, hyenas, bears, and Homo erectus.

Graph Modelling Language

Graph-tool, a free and efficient Python module for manipulation and statistical analysis of graphs.

Guido van Rossum

I chose Python as a working title for the project, being in a slightly irreverent mood (and a big fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus).

History of Python

In 1995, Van Rossum continued his work on Python at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) in Reston, Virginia whence he released several versions.

Latent Dirichlet allocation

Gensim Python+NumPy implementation of LDA for input larger than the available RAM.

Loomia

Loomia's content recommendation technology is built upon multiple Open Source technologies including Python, MySQL, Apache, and CentOS.

Luigi D'Albertis

Only Leiopython albertisii (the white-lipped python) is currently recognised as a valid species, the other three reptiles being synonymised within species described earlier, ironically two of which were described by British entomologist William Sharp Macleay whose rival expedition on the Chevert, was also collecting specimens in southern Papua.

Metamath

Using the design ideas implemented in Metamath, Raph Levien has implemented what might be the smallest proof checker in the world, mmverify.py, at only 500 lines of Python code.

National Computer Science School

Four groups develop a website using Python and other web technologies, while two groups develop embedded software for Arduino in its C-like language.

Netezza

In February 2010, Netezza announced that it had opened up its systems to support major programming models, including Hadoop, MapReduce, Java, C++, and Python models.

Nudge

"Nudge Nudge", a sketch from the third Monty Python's Flying Circus

Optimal control

APMonitor (Dynamic optimization platform for Python and MATLAB)

PCell

Although the programming language in which a PCell is written is not of importance, SKILL(2) or Python are most often used to write PCell's code.

Phusion Passenger

Later versions also added support for Python through the WSGI interface, as well as support for Node.js.

Plotly

Plotly provides online graphing, analytics, a Python command line, and stats tools for individuals and collaboration, as well as scientific graphing libraries for Python, R, MATLAB, Perl, Julia, Arduino, and REST.

Pom Prap Sattru Phai District

There are also freak shows such as Mia Ngu (เมียงู, lit. snake's wife) with a woman living with a python.

Princess Python

Zelda DuBois, born in Darlington, South Carolina, developed an act as a snake charmer and circus performer using a twenty-five foot python as a young adult.

Her python Pythagoras had also gotten sick and died, however, Gibbon bought her a new python at the end of the story.

Unlike her Earth-616 version, this Princess Python has super-strength and was able to knock a piece of the Thing's body off him.

Python syntax and semantics

For instance, the Mailman mailing list software, written in Python, uses exceptions to jump out of deeply-nested message-handling logic when a decision has been made to reject a message or hold it for moderator approval.

Red blood

Python curtus brongersmai, also known as the red blood python Python curtus brongersmai

Reptile centre

A Burmese Python at the reptile centre Serpent Safari in Gurnee, Illinois was billed as the heaviest living snake in captivity.

ReStructuredText

Pelican, a static website generator completely written in Python that takes advantage of RST.

SharpMusique

SharpMusique was a rewrite in C# of PyMusique, which was an iTunes Music Store client written in Python by Travis Watkins, Cody Brocious, and Jon Lech Johansen for the purpose of allowing downloading songs from the iTunes Music Store before DRM was applied to them from a Mac, Linux, or Windows computer.

Single-precision floating-point format

However, float in Python, Ruby, PHP, and OCaml and single in versions of Octave prior to 3.2 refer to double-precision numbers.

Sir Eglamour of Artois

Sir Eglamour spends a month travelling out to Sidon where he locates this boar by seeing all the bodies of dead men strewn about the ground; in a scene that is perhaps mimicked by one featuring a Rabbit of Caerbannog in the irreverent Monty Python movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

SourceLair

It supports several programming languages (Python, Ruby, Lua, C/C++ etc) for single file programs.Through sourceLair, developers are able to develop professionally their HTML5 and Django projects on the cloud.

SPOJ

The solution to problems can be submitted in over 40 languages including C, C++, Java, Python, C#, Go, Haskell, OCaml, and F#, Ruby, Icon, Intercal, Pike.

St Ivo School

Notable animals that were kept included a snapper turtle, an African rock python, a tokay gecko and Round Island skinks.

Tai Kok Tsui Ferry Pier

Monty Python comedian Michael Palin passed through the Ferry Pier on 07-11-1988 while filming for the BBC series Around the World in 80 Days.

The Feast in the House of Levi

Monty Python's sketch 28 disciples or The Last Supper about why Michelangelo didn't paint the Last Supper was based on this historic painting.

Travis CI

It supports building software in numerous languages, including C, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Groovy, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala.

Unladen Swallow

Like many things regarding the Python language, "Unladen Swallow" is a Monty Python reference, specifically to the gag about the airspeed velocity of unladen swallows in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Van Rossum

Guido van Rossum (born 1956), Dutch computer programmer and author of the Python programming language

Vert.x

Similar environments written in other programming languages include Node.js for JavaScript, Twisted for Python, Perl Object Environment for Perl, libevent for C and EventMachine for Ruby.

White-lipped python

Liasis mackloti, a.k.a. Macklot's python, a non-venomous species found in Indonesia.

Leiopython albertisii, a.k.a. D'Albert's water python, a non-venomous species found in New Guinea.

WideStudio

This enables you to develop GUI applications that can run on Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/CE, Linux, FreeBSD, SOLARIS, Mac OS X (w/X11), BTRON, T-Engine, mu-CLinux (wo/X11) in various programming languages such as C/C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, Python, OCaml.

Wildlife regulations in Florida

Prohibited animals include “Burmese or Indian python (Python molurus), reticulated python (Python reticulatus), Northern African python (Python sebae), Southern African python (Python natalensis), amethystine or scrub python (Morelia amethistina), green anaconda (Eunectes murinus), Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus), and any other reptile designated as a conditional or prohibited species by the FWC.


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