Re: [NF] The real Python

On Nov 27, 2018, at 6:32 PM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:

It must be true; I read it on the internet,

https://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html#why-is-it-called-python

The Python Package Index, which is the repository for 3rd-party packages, was originally named the "Cheese Shop", after this famous Monty Python sketch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3KBuQHHKx0 https://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShop

In fact, https://cheeseshop.python.org will redirect to https://pypi.org/

The editor included with Python is named IDLE (https://docs.python.org/3/library/idle.html), in honor of Monty Python's Eric Idle.

-- Ed Leafe