Why do they call it Python?

When he began implementing Python, Guido van Rossum was also reading the published scripts from “Monty Python's Flying Circus”, a BBC comedy series from the 1970s. Van Rossum thought he needed a name that was short, unique, and slightly mysterious, so he decided to call the language Python. read more

At the same time he began implementing Python, Guido van Rossum was also reading the published scripts from Monty Python’s Flying Circus (a BBC comedy series from the seventies, in the unlikely case you didn’t know). read more

Python's name is derived from the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus, and it is common to use Monty Python references in example code. For example, the metasyntactic variables often used in Python literature are spam andeggs, instead of the traditional foo and bar. read more

Python is known as a scripting language because it is an interpeted language and because it is easy to write scripts in it. An interpreted language is a language whose programs don't have to be compiled before they can be run. read more