Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!xlned.com!feeder7.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.135 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.76; '*S*': 0.03; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'python': 0.11; 'mostly': 0.14; '>>': 0.16; 'opposite': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'trying': 0.19; 'seems': 0.21; 'example': 0.22; "i've": 0.25; '>': 0.26; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'point': 0.28; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; "i'm": 0.30; 'that.': 0.31; 'url:wiki': 0.31; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'url:wikipedia': 0.31; 'but': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; '+0200,': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'how': 0.40; 'subject:Fwd': 0.61; 'name': 0.63; 'hear': 0.63; 'kind': 0.63; 'actions,': 0.84; 'british': 0.87; 'skin': 0.91; 'state.': 0.95; '2013': 0.98 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=4mGZlzmpx2NBJeeMZAZk3/qw7r+3UnukYFSeQw0NzVI=; b=eznU0sJzQ/WQ44S8z7YKpqEytY8KXDYO7ZpV121SErJVTZzSuaBm1qgIF/P8YfLlWW DI5Xd4vR65al48w7s2thDzNjbfULdsOefGAaxyRwpq266RBnhnGwuTh8VzLKEeUBp67T S5nbYPg+DQtP96rEmEQ3ePeVZs+zRwrw9YXltkNz3aSpYTINcH8hH2eRv+AX1jm4t/Ng 5ePHfz7JmMUr15+f/GtUUcaeX9pzam3U1IhUJnA3NLimzigvyzLPUdEusfWOVxQpSE8/ 5V0k01g77+bFfSma3CYvfYGGg/oWoxrL9NT05APUCFAZ7J6PvGxwCHwen36rbIjbgb55 C0Bw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.220.101.69 with SMTP id b5mr21102933vco.55.1368520498974; Tue, 14 May 2013 01:34:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5191cbc9$0$29978$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> References: <5191cbc9$0$29978$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:34:58 +0200 Subject: Fwd: Python for philosophers From: Citizen Kant To: python-list@python.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b3a7e92359a4904dca982ce X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 48 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1368520508 news.xs4all.nl 15916 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:41108 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:45290 --047d7b3a7e92359a4904dca982ce Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 2013/5/14 Steven D'Aprano > On Tue, 14 May 2013 01:32:43 +0200, Citizen Kant wrote: > > >> An entity named Python must be somehow as a serpent. Don't forget that > >> I'm with the freeing up of my memory, now I'm not trying to follow the > >> path of what's told but acting like the monkey and pushing with my > >> finger against the skin of the snake. > > >Python is not named after the snake, but after Monty Python the British > >comedy troupe. And they picked their name because it sounded funny. > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python > > > > > I'm sorry to hear that. Mostly because, as an answer, seems to example > very well the "taken because I've been told how things are" kind of > actions, which is exactly the opposite of the point I'm trying to state. > --047d7b3a7e92359a4904dca982ce Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1



2013/5/14 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info>
On Tue, 14 May 2013 01:32:43 +0200, Citizen Kant wrote:

>> An entity named Python must be somehow as a serpent. Don't forget that
>> I'm with the freeing up of my memory, now I'm not trying to follow the
>> path of what's told but acting like the monkey and pushing with my
>> finger against the skin of the snake.

>Python is not named after the snake, but after Monty Python the British
>comedy troupe. And they picked their name because it sounded funny.

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python




I'm sorry to hear that. Mostly because, as an answer, seems to example very well the "taken because I've been told how things are" kind of actions, which is exactly the opposite of the point I'm trying to state.
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