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Oh, then you've got some surprises waiting for you in the docs. I can't remember the specifics years later, but I recall thinking "odd that $SOMETHING <could have been the 'spam and eggs' thing> is sprinkled throughout the docs. I wonder why...oh."

It took me a while to figure out why I kept coming across references to the Cheeseshop. Turns out that's why PyPI has that little quote at the bottom.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShop

Also the inspiration for the wheel packaging format. As in cheese wheel.

(Not sure if troll, but I'll bite.) Don't feel bad. It took me a few years to realize that. It stands in contrast to the official coding examples, all of which are way longer than 4 bytes.

Yeah, that's also why they tend to use 'spam' and 'eggs' instead of 'foo' and 'bar' in a lot of the official docs.

Something else that blew my mind: Jupyter was named after JUlia, PYthon, and R.

And the Calysto Jupyter kernel project is based on the fact that the Jupyter logo is missing one of the Galilean moons. Naming is fun.

You mean PYThon