[BangPypers] Advanced Python or Understanding Python

[Roshan Mathews]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
<abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Roshan Mathews <rmathews at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Since everyone seems to be mailing in today.
>>
>> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7760178035196894549
>>
>> By one of the people behind Unladen Swallow incidentally.  What's with
>> that name, btw?  Quite the mouthful, hard to swallow, so to speak.
>
> Unladen => As in unladen transport vehicle, means light on load.
> In this context, it means a lightweight object.
>
> Swallow - I don't think this means the bird Swallow, but the
> act of swallowing, which is what a Python does - I think this is
> a reference to Python itself.
>
> So "Unladen Swallow" -> A lightweight Python.
>
> Quite cryptic I say... they could have opted for something more
> straightforward perhaps...
>
http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

The bird, plus Monty Python reference.  Still quite a mouthful, no
reference to Ms. Lovelace.

Roshan Mathews