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List:       python-list
Subject:    Re: SPAM
From:       Tony McDonald <tony.mcdonald () ncl ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2000-03-14 22:07:02
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In article <#nkd1Mfj$GA.215@net003s>, "A[r]TA" <arta@wittty.com> wrote:

> What you're doing!
> Sending stupid email full of nonse and advertisments.
> Or just a stupid question in a NG with nothing has to do with the
> NG!
> 
> Bye, don't do it again!
> 
> A[r]TA
> 
> 
> Michal Bozon <bozon@natur.cuni.cz> schreef in berichtnieuws
> Pine.OSF.4.10.10003141426080.31983-100000@prfdec.natur.cuni.cz...
> > __hi__
> > 
> > What is it "spam" ?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Michal Bozon
> > 
> 
> 

Of course it's just possible he meant the use of 'spam' in Python code?

The name 'Python' comes from 'Monty Pythons' Flying Circus' - a TV 
programme that Guido (Pythons' creator) found (finds?) very funny (it is 
BTW). In the programme the word 'spam' is used quite a bit in sketches.

Pythoners use 'spam' in the same way that other languages use 'foo', as 
a dummy variable..eg

def doit(spam):
   for slices in spam:
      print "Spam!"

hth
tone.

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