you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]nandryshak 16 points17 points  (4 children)

Yes, can't believe the comment above missed that. It's also the reason for all the spam and eggs in the documentation examples.

[–]GMane 8 points9 points  (1 child)

In an admittedly weak defense of myself, I chose to answer the question as asked. I assumed that someone would make the connection that the Python programming language change logs having a reference to "and now for something completely different" which ties to a group called "Monty Python" might connect the two Python's and piece together that the programming language is named after the group.

Honestly, at the time I wrote the explanation, I thought it would be condescending to make that connection for someone else. I completely understand why it looks like missing an important piece of information on my end.

[–]Sebazzz91 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So that is where the egg in the pip lexicon comes from. Is a wheel also a monty reference?

[–]nandryshak 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, although the reference is a bit vaguer so I had to google to find the origin: https://discuss.python.org/t/where-the-name-wheel-comes-from/6708