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[jb3]

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[UP929312]

Fact:
The name "Python" is a tribute to the British comedy group, "Monty Python", and is often mentioned in tutorials and reference materials, such as referring to spam and eggs (from a famous Monty Python sketch) instead of the standard "foo" and "bar".

[UP929312]

Fact:
Python was first released in 1991, a few years before Java even!

[IFcoltransG]

Python was invented by Guido Van Rossum, who was affectionately known as the 'Benevolent Dictator For Life' of Python (BDFL) until he stepped down in 2018.

[MrKomodoDragon]

If you type from __future__ import braces in the REPL, you’ll get an interesting SyntaxError about whether it will be implemented.

[Kronifer]

Not only did Guido van Rossum name Python after Monty Python, the Python docs are riddled with Monty Python skit references.

[Brodevil]

"Python is a multi-paradigm programming language providing support for procedural, object-oriented, and even functional paradigms".
It's a bit hard to quantify all paradigms like such as Python itself is an extremely flexible language

1. Structured programming
2. Functional programming
3. Object-Oriented programming (OOPs)

[purefunctor]

I would probably phrase this as "Python is a multi-paradigm programming language providing support for procedural, object-oriented, and even functional paradigms".

It's a bit hard to quantify all paradigms like such as Python itself is an extremely flexible language

[Brodevil]

A bank python file is also having some inbuild hiden identifiers, by Default
That are :

__doc__
__name__
__cached__
__sepc__
__loader__
__pakage__
__annotations__
___file___   
__buildins__
__bader__

These are containing some data as per their works.

[swfarnsworth]

What do you mean by "a bank python file"?

[Brodevil]

A python file which doesn't contain any data

[15696]

I would rephrase this as:

A blank Python file has some built-in hidden variables by default. These are:

__doc__
__name__
__cached__
__sepc__
__loader__
__package__
__annotations__
__file__
__buildins__
__bader__

I'm not too familiar with these as I don't use them often but I think there might be some spelling mistakes, like __buildins__ which I'm pretty sure should be __builtins__.

[Brodevil]

Python Libraries and Packages are a set of useful modules and functions that minimize the use of code in our day-to-day life.
There are over more than 137,000 python libraries and 198,826 python packages ready to ease the developer's regular programming experience.
These libraries and packages are intended for a variety of modern-day solutions.

[15696]

I don't think stating what a library / package is is necessary.

Maybe just something like:

There are more than 137k libraries and 198k packages in Python.

[Kronifer]

There are many implementations of Python, like Jython which runs on the Java Virtual Machine, iron python on .net and pypy which uses a just in time compiler are just a few

[Kronifer]

There is an unofficial port of python for the PS2

[UP929312]

Source?

[purefunctor]

This mailing list thread, it seems https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-July/016365.html

[thatbirdguythatuknownot]

There is a module named turtledemo that animates and creates things with the turtle module. An example animation is turtledemo.sorting_animate, which can be tested using from turtledemo.sorting_animate import main; main().

[thatbirdguythatuknownot]

When you do hash(float('inf')) or hash(math.inf), you'll get the first few digits of pi but as an int: 314159.

[greyblue9]

Did you know the GOAT of python, Ned, commonly hangs around and help users at python discord!!

[nedbat]

Did you know the GOAT of python, Ned, commonly hangs around and help users at python discord!!

I don't think we need to add this as a fact :)

[greyblue9]

Did you know the GOAT of python, Ned, commonly hangs around and help users at python discord!!

I don't think we need to add this as a fact :)

Removed from PR :D

[greyblue9]

Apparently, pythons are known to have eaten goats.