Python mascot? How about a Pythoneer?

[Scott David Daniels]

Tim Churches wrote:
> Stephen Ferg <steve at ferg.org> wrote:
>>I've been thinking that a good Python mascot might help in raising
>>public awareness of Python.
> .... It has to be cute and cuddly, ... it really has to be an animal,
> and a Python is only choice. But a really cute, huggable Python.

Well, I cannot help but think that warm, cuddly, and huggable leads us
directly to a python's victims -- mice and such.  That word huggable....

-Scott David Daniels
Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org