The film would not have been made without former Beatle and Python fan George Harrison, who set up Handmade Films to help fund it at a cost of £ 3 million ( a move later described by Eric Idle as the " world's most expensive cinema ticket ").

George Harrison was a Python fan as well as being involved in The Rutles film.

Some of the best known British film comedy stars include Will Hay, George Formby, Sir Norman Wisdom, Sir Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers and the Monty Python team.

The A-side was produced by Python devotee George Harrison.

" After Lenny Bruce, others have been Sam Kinison, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Jimmy Carr, Frankie Boyle, Chris Morris and the Monty Python team.

HandMade Films was formed by former Beatle George Harrison and business partner Denis O ' Brien in 1978 to finance the Monty Python film Life of Brian.

* In an interview, George Harrison's son, Dhani Harrison, said that the Fish-Slapping Dance was one of his father's favourite Monty Python sketches.

In later series Cleese was often absent, due to his appearances in Monty Python ; in the sleeve notes to the BBC's re-issues of the shows on cassette, his absences were explained as " ranting commitments elsewhere ".

Author Martin Dougherty notes the weight of the Python as a drawback, as it is quite heavy for a handgun, ranging from 2. 4 lbs ( 1. 1 kg ) to 2. 6 lbs ( 1. 2 kg ), which is only slightly lighter than Smith & Wesson's model M29. 44 Magnum.

Robert Ross ' Monty Python Encyclopedia notes that Mr Praline has become a beloved figure within the Python canon.

The review notes the strong similarities of the last ten minutes of " Avalon " ( Part 1 ) to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and the set of the beginning of Part 2 as a " god-awful Merrie Olde England pastiche straight out of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

When Apollo slew Python, its body fell into this fissure, according to legend, and fumes arose from its decomposing body.

* Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy, Python ; a study of Delphic myth and its origins, New York, Biblio & Tannen, 1974.

The five surviving Python members decided to stay away from Chapman's private funeral, to prevent its becoming a media circus and to give his family some privacy.

On New Year's Day 2007, and again on New Year's Eve, UK television station Channel 4 dedicated an entire evening to the Monty Python phenomenon during which an hour-long documentary was broadcast called The Secret Life of Brian about the making of The Life of Brian and the controversy that was caused by its release.

Bruces ' Philosophers Song ( Bruces ' Song ) was a popular Monty Python song written by Eric Idle, and was a feature of the group's stage appearances and its recordings.

Although the members of Monty Python had already encountered each other over the years, The Frost Report was the first time all the British members of Monty Python ( its sixth member, Terry Gilliam, was at that time an American citizen ) worked together.

CPython, the reference implementation of Python, is free and open source software and has a community-based development model, as do nearly all of its alternative implementations.

Python was conceived in the late 1980s and its implementation was started in December 1989 by Guido van Rossum at CWI in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC language ( itself inspired by SETL ) capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system.

Many of its major features have been backported to the backwards-compatible Python 2. 6 and 2. 7.

Likewise, to say of an interface or language feature that it is pythonic is to say that it works well with Python idioms, that its use meshes well with the rest of the language.

Gentoo Linux uses Python in its package management system, Portage and the standard tool to access it, emerge.

The simplicity of Python is demonstrated by its version of the classic " Hello world " program:

* Python uses the words,, for its boolean operators rather than the symbolic,, used in C.

Through a Monty Python sketch, in which Spam is portrayed as ubiquitous and inescapable, its name has come to be given to electronic spam, including spam email.

On the other hand, Gilliam's first successful feature, Time Bandits ( 1981 ), earned more than eight times its original budget in the United States alone ; The Adventures of Baron Munchausen ( 1988 ) was nominated for four Academy Awards ( and won, among other European prizes, three BAFTA Awards ); The Fisher King ( 1991 ) ( his first film not to feature a member from Python ) was nominated for five ( and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress ); and 12 Monkeys went on to take over US $ 168 million worldwide ; whilst The Brothers Grimm, despite a mixed critical reception, grossed over US $ 105 million worldwide.

* Googlebot is described in some detail, but the reference is only about an early version of its architecture, which was based in C ++ and Python.

Other tools like awk can also be considered glue languages, as can any language implemented by an ActiveX WSH engine ( VBScript, JScript and VBA by default in Windows and third-party engines including implementations of Rexx, Perl, Tcl, Python, XSLT, Ruby, Delphi, & c ) A majority of applications can access and use operating system components via the object models or its own functions.

* Fontenrose, Joseph Eddy, Python ; a study of Delphic myth and its origins, New York, Biblio & Tannen, ISBN 0-8196-0285-X ( 1959 ; 1974 )

* Joseph Eddy Fontenrose, Python ; a study of Delphic myth and its origins, 1959.

In some languages ( e. g. Pascal ) only one type is allowed, in some ( e. g. C and its derivatives ) both are used with different meanings and in others ( e. g. Python ) both are used interchangeably.

The School of Computer Science was not part of this agreement, and currently offers Scheme and a choice of C or Python in its introductory courses.

In Monty Python, a popular skit is " The Lumberjack Song " known for its refrain " I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay / I sleep all night and I work all day ".

Apollo slew it but had to do penance and be cleansed afterwards, since though Python was a child of Gaia, it was necessary that the ancient Delphic Oracle passed to the protection of the new god.

In Slate, Sam Anderson wrote in the article " And Now for Something Completely Deficient " that though Idle " has earned a spot in Comedy Heaven for his Python days ... his jokey ' exposure ' of his own exploitation ( he has called tours ' Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python ' and ' The Greedy Bastard Tour ') is more irritating than funny.

Sometimes referred to as the " other Python " or " the seventh Python " or even " The Female Python ", though she thinks this is too much ( the Pythons themselves performed and wrote their own material ).

The Monty Python mode of presenting the tune was with a single strike of the bell, lifted from the third section and increased in volume, followed by a strain of each of the first two sections, followed by the famous stomping foot and a noticeably flatulent " splat " sound reminiscent of a whoopee cushion ( though the first episodes used a " hiss ").

Q also comes with an extensive system interface ( though not as comprehensive as the facilities provided by other scripting languages such as Perl and Python ).

The series was acquired in order to be broadcast along with the documentary Monty Python: Almost the Truth ( The Lawyers Cut ), though IFC elected to continue broadcasting episodes after the documentary finished running.

Once he reached the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) in March 1986, Roberts would bring a huge, live Burmese Python ( though various snakes were used over the years, most were named " Damien ") to ringside in a canvas bag.

E's syntax is most similar to Java, though it also bears some resemblance to Python and Pascal.

This plugin was eventually discontinued, as the inability to sandbox Python resulted in security concerns, though there was a later effort to revive it ( an updated alpha version for Internet Explorer, and Firefox and COLLADA support was considered ).