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Python: The Documentary [video]

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312 points chmaynard | 3 comments | 28 Aug 25 23:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | source
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ayhanfuat ◴[29 Aug 25 01:45 UTC] No.45059101[source]▶
The Zen of Python part was quite fun. I wish Tim Peters was in it though. He wrote yesterday:

> I do show up, but not “live”. For various reasons (mostly related to declining health), I didn’t actively participate. I gave the director (Ida Bechtle) a pile of source material at the start, and that was the last of my involvement. She spliced in some recycled video of an interview I did with the PyPy folks at a PyCon some years ago, but I’m there mostly so people could recite my so-called “Zen of Python”, which an actual historian (Joseph Dragovich) assured me is “the most famous values statement for any programming language community”. https://discuss.python.org/t/python-documentary-going-live-t...

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1. primitivesuave ◴[29 Aug 25 02:44 UTC] No.45059520[source]▶
Adding a link to the ZoP for the uninitiated: https://peps.python.org/pep-0020/
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2. suchoudh ◴[29 Aug 25 03:32 UTC] No.45059842[source]▶
In India people call initiation as Deekhsha.

This is where the guru whispers (3 times) to you the seed letters which one has to imbibe over decades of sadhana by lacs of repetition

this looks similar

#rememberThis

3. sim7c00 ◴[29 Aug 25 07:16 UTC] No.45061159[source]▶
try: __main__() except BeingDutchException: print("make some noize!") except: pass

how did i do on my python exam? 5.6 is also a pass!