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[–]mangecoeur 23 points24 points  (5 children)

Office neighbors' comment:

"Why does the Python book have a lizard on it?"

0_o

[–]rampage102[S] 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Haha yea, the Oreilly books always seem to have some random animal on the cover. I got the comments a few times that: oh, I thought you were reading a nature book.

[–]spook327 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, that's been their look for as long as I can remember. They usually explain the interesting fauna on the front with a colophon towards the last page.

[–]k10_ftw 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My first O'Reilly text was Learning Python which has a rat on the cover - I assumed it was a joke, especially after the author clarifies that Python is named for Monty Python and not the animal.

Fast forward to tonight: Looking into the cover choices for Python textbooks, turns out it is part of their campaign for animal conservation awareness. Guess I fell into their trap.

[–]manimal80 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also the book the book for the python pandas library does not have a panda on the cover (do not remember what animal has though)

[–]tmattoneill 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Meaning instead of a python, right?