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[silly] Does the python mascot have a name ?

umm, was just wondering, does the python mascot have a name ? We are naming the
conference rooms in our office you see :o).

Also, is there a place I could get some neat, good quality pics of the python ?

- steve
May 16 '06 #1
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Steve <lo*************@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:e4**********@emma.aioe.org:
umm, was just wondering, does the python mascot have a name ?


I always assumed it was Monty, but I confess to not having the slightest
factual basis for this belief.

All the best,

John.
May 16 '06 #2
John D Salt wrote:
Steve <lo*************@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:e4**********@emma.aioe.org:

umm, was just wondering, does the python mascot have a name ?


I always assumed it was Monty, but I confess to not having the slightest
factual basis for this belief.

To be honest, Monty really makes the most sense to me for a mascot
name... now if we can only get past all that damn copyright infringement ;)
--

Carl J. Van Arsdall
cv*********@mvista.com
Build and Release
MontaVista Software

May 16 '06 #3

Carl> To be honest, Monty really makes the most sense to me for a mascot
Carl> name... now if we can only get past all that damn copyright
Carl> infringement ;)

My dad's nickname was Monty. Some friends of my son, Chris, call him Monty
as well. I doubt either of them would object. (Dad's gone, Chris does a
little Python programming from time-to-time.) I say go for it...

Skip (Montanaro)
May 16 '06 #4
John D Salt wrote:
Steve <lo*************@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:e4**********@emma.aioe.org:
umm, was just wondering, does the python mascot have a name ?


I always assumed it was Monty, but I confess to not having the slightest
factual basis for this belief.


Well, so Monty it is ! ...btw, did you know, the Camel
(http://dev.perl.org/perl6/rfc/343.html) doesn't have a name either ? ...looks
like Duke (http://www.java.com/en/dukeszone/) is the only dude with a name
....but then duke is not an animal (wtf is it ?), so it had to be called something !

Regards
Steve
May 16 '06 #5
Steve wrote:

Well, so Monty it is ! ...btw, did you know, the Camel
(http://dev.perl.org/perl6/rfc/343.html) doesn't have a name either ? ...looks
like Duke (http://www.java.com/en/dukeszone/) is the only dude with a name
...but then duke is not an animal (wtf is it ?), so it had to be called something !

Well, we could call the perl camel Joe but I don't know if the perlcores
(read: hardcore PERL users) would be down for that ;)

..c

--

Carl J. Van Arsdall
cv*********@mvista.com
Build and Release
MontaVista Software

May 16 '06 #6
Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:
Well, we could call the perl camel Joe but I don't know if the perlcores
(read: hardcore PERL users) would be down for that ;)


Hmmm. Perl is like smoking, it feels great and gives you cancer. Yes,
there's definitely potential here. ;)

--
Edward Elliott
UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
complangpython at eddeye dot net
May 17 '06 #7
Steve wrote:
umm, was just wondering, does the python mascot have a name ? We are naming the
conference rooms in our office you see :o).

Also, is there a place I could get some neat, good quality pics of the python ?

- steve


The Python mascot is called Odi.

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...er/185612.html

--
It's called DOM+XHR and it's *NOT* a detergent!

May 17 '06 #8
Andy Sy <an**@neotitans.com> wrote in
news:ma***************************************@pyt hon.org:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...er/185612.html


"Odi" must be the Dutch for "Monty".

All the best,

John.
May 17 '06 #9
John D Salt <jdsalt_AT_gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:
Andy Sy <an**@neotitans.com> wrote in
news:ma***************************************@pyt hon.org:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...er/185612.html


"Odi" must be the Dutch for "Monty".


Nope. If it was Dutch it would probably be Odie

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John Bokma <jo**@castleamber.com> wrote in news:Xns97C6ADE23FCAcastleamber@
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John D Salt <jdsalt_AT_gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:
Andy Sy <an**@neotitans.com> wrote in
news:ma***************************************@pyt hon.org:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...er/185612.html


"Odi" must be the Dutch for "Monty".


Nope. If it was Dutch it would probably be Odie


Damn.

All the best,

John.
May 18 '06 #11
John D Salt wrote:
hon-list/2003-September/185612.html

"Odi" must be the Dutch for "Monty".

Nope. If it was Dutch it would probably be Odie


Damn.

Odi(e) was a punk. I'm gonna be a rebel without a cause and stay with
Monty ;)
--

Carl J. Van Arsdall
cv*********@mvista.com
Build and Release
MontaVista Software

May 18 '06 #12
Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:
John D Salt wrote:
> hon-list/2003-September/185612.html
>
"Odi" must be the Dutch for "Monty".

Nope. If it was Dutch it would probably be Odie

Damn.

Odi(e) was a punk. I'm gonna be a rebel without a cause and stay with
Monty ;)

Yes ! Monty sounds much better ! ...also imagine the expression on the PHB's
face if this were to happen ...

PHB: So, why is the language called python ?
DEV: Well, it is named after Monty Python.
PHB: Eh, but you just said the mascot was called Monty. Do you mean the
language was named after it's mascot ??!!??
DEV: Eh, yeah. They spent a lot of time deciding the mascot and naming it,
before they designed the language.

Regards
Steve
May 18 '06 #13
Steve wrote:
Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote:
John D Salt wrote:
>> hon-list/2003-September/185612.html
> "Odi" must be the Dutch for "Monty".
Nope. If it was Dutch it would probably be Odie
Damn.

Odi(e) was a punk. I'm gonna be a rebel without a cause and stay with
Monty ;)

Yes ! Monty sounds much better ! ...also imagine the expression on the
PHB's face if this were to happen ...


Just reinforces the central truth. The mascot doesn't
*have* a name. Most things don't. You're welcome to assign
it the name "Monty" if you want.

Mel.
May 18 '06 #14
Mel Wilson <mw********@sympatico.ca> wrote in news:_s2bg.8867$aa4.296233
@news20.bellglobal.com:

[Snips]
Just reinforces the central truth. The mascot doesn't
*have* a name. Most things don't.


Most things don't have names?

I'll believe you if you can give me a list of ten things that don't have
names.

;-)

All the best,

John.
May 19 '06 #15
John D Salt wrote:
Mel Wilson <mw********@sympatico.ca> wrote in news:_s2bg.8867$aa4.296233
@news20.bellglobal.com:

[Snips]
Just reinforces the central truth. The mascot doesn't
*have* a name. Most things don't.
Most things don't have names?

I'll believe you if you can give me a list of ten things that don't have
names.

;-)


!!!

[object() for i in xrange(10)]


All the best,

John.


Likewise,

Mel.
May 19 '06 #16
John D Salt wrote:
I'll believe you if you can give me a list of ten things that don't have
names.


[ sub{$_}, sub{$_+1}, sub{$_+2}, sub{$_+3}, sub{$_+4},
sub{$_+5}, sub{$_+6}, sub{$_+7}, sub{$_+8}, sub{$_+9}]

That was easy.

Ralf
May 19 '06 #17
Ralf Muschall wrote:
John D Salt wrote:

I'll believe you if you can give me a list of ten things that don't have
names.


[ sub{$_}, sub{$_+1}, sub{$_+2}, sub{$_+3}, sub{$_+4},
sub{$_+5}, sub{$_+6}, sub{$_+7}, sub{$_+8}, sub{$_+9}]

That was easy.

Wakka wakka.

--

Carl J. Van Arsdall
cv*********@mvista.com
Build and Release
MontaVista Software

May 19 '06 #18
John D Salt <jdsalt_AT_gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:
Most things don't have names?

I'll believe you if you can give me a list of ten things that don't have
names.


Chairs, couches, tables, desks, beds, cars, pens, phones, trees, windows
(can you tell how I came up with this list? ;). Those are all object types
without names to identify individual instances. "Ed's chair" and "John's
blue car" aren't names to me, just descriptions. It's like saying "that
temporary object on line 24 of function foo".

Really, how many things *do* have names? People, pets, computers, ships,
and a few guns?

--
Edward Elliott
UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
complangpython at eddeye dot net
May 21 '06 #19

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