His arrival must have occurred during the " dark ages " that followed the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, and his conflict with Gaia ( Mother Earth ) was represented by the legend of his slaying her daughter the serpent Python.

Python was the good daemon ( αγαθός δαίμων ) of the temple as it appears in Minoan religion, but she was represented as a dragon, as often happens in Northern European folklore as well as in the East.

Apollo killed Python but had to be punished for it, since Python was a child of Gaia.

The name was first used in the English language in 1768 by R. Edwin in a colorful description of a large snake found in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ), most likely a reticulated python, Python reticulatus.

In some films, knitted string spray-painted with a metallic paint is used instead of actual mail in order to cut down on cost ( an example being Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which was filmed on a very small budget ).

In Greek mythology, Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, the most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and a major site for the worship of the god Apollo after he slew the Python, a dragon who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth.

The victors at Delphi were presented with a laurel crown ( stephanos ) which was ceremonially cut from a tree by a boy who re-enacted the slaying of the Python.

According to some because Python had attempted to rape Leto while she was pregnant with Apollo and Artemis.

Apollo killed Python but had to be punished for it, since she was a child of Gaia.

Erwin Rohde wrote that the Python was an earth spirit, who was conquered by Apollo, and buried under the Omphalos, and that it is a case of one deity setting up a temple on the grave of another.

At least one DNAYS sketch was re-used in Monty Python.

In common, with another important Monty Python predecessor, At Last the 1948 Show, many episodes were wiped as was common practice at the time due to the lack of any apparent market for them prior to the invention of home video.

Graham Arthur Chapman ( 8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989 ) was an English comedian, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python.

Since Chapman's death, the speculation of a Python revival was inevitably diminished.

In June 2011, it was announced that most of the surviving Python members ( except Idle ) will perform in a 3-D animated version of Chapman's memoir A Liar ’ s Autobiography: Volume VI.

It also made a brief appearance in the 1977 film Jabberwocky where it was being held by King Bruno the Questionable ( the latter film was directed by Terry Gilliam, starred Michael Palin, and featured a cameo by Terry Jones, all members of Monty Python ).

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ) ( adapted in 2004 as the stage production Spamalot ) was a comedic adaptation.

In 1978, the Monty Python comedy group invited Moon to join them in Tunisia for their filming of Monty Python's Life of Brian, where he was to play some of the smaller roles.

The appearance was billed as the " U. S. Comedy Arts Festival Tribute to Monty Python ", although video releases have gone by varying titles, including " Monty Python Live at Aspen ( 1998 )".

An early listing of the sequence of sketches reprinted in Monty Python: The Case Against by Robert Hewison reveals that the film was to have begun with a set of sketches at an English public school.

Having originally conceived the story as a 6-minute animated sequence in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, intended for placement at the end of Part V, Terry Gilliam convinced the other members of Monty Python to allow him to produce and direct it as a live-action piece instead.

PyPy was conceived as an implementation of Python written in Python, which enables Python developers to hack the implementation.

In the United States, an introduced population of Burmese pythons, Python molurus bivittatus, has existed as an invasive species in the Everglades National Park since the late 1990s.

An important feature of Python is dynamic name resolution ( late binding ), which binds method and variable names during program execution.

It is believed that the first person to say " shit " on British TV was John Cleese of the Monty Python comedy troupe in the late 1960s, as he, himself, says in his eulogy for Graham Chapman.

The Bonzos and members of the Python team worked together in the late 1960s on the TV comedy show Do Not Adjust Your Set.

Jython was initially created in late 1997 to replace C with Java for performance-intensive code accessed by Python programs, moving to SourceForge in October 2000.

However, he actually left the games industry after completing Dark Seed and moved into television writing ( including some episodes of Family Matters ) until the late 1990s, wrote four books on programming ( including Beginning C ++ Game Programming and Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner ) and is teaching game design and programming classes at Stanford University and UCLA.

Alec Ounsworth released his solo debut, Mo Beauty, in late 2009 while concurrently releasing Skin and Bones, the debut album with his other band Flashy Python.

As of late 2008, PyPy was able to run some popular Python libraries like Pylons, Pyglet, Nevow and Django.

ABC also had a major influence on the design of the Python programming language ; Guido van Rossum, who developed Python, previously worked for several years on the ABC system in the early 1980s.

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.

Python biographer George Perry notes, " The People's Liberation Front of Judea conducts its meetings as though they have been convened by a group of shop stewards ".

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.

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 ".