Editing Python (programming language) (section)

==Naming==
Python's name is inspired by the British comedy group [[Monty Python]], whom Python creator Guido van Rossum enjoyed while developing the language. Monty Python references appear frequently in Python code and culture;<ref name="tutorial-chapter1"/> for example, the [[metasyntactic variable]]s often used in Python literature are [[Spam (Monty Python)|''spam'' and ''eggs'']], rather than the traditional [[foobar|''foo'' and ''bar'']].<ref name="tutorial-chapter1"/><ref name="AutoNT-26"/> The official Python documentation also contains various references to Monty Python routines.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lutz |first1=Mark |title=Learning Python: Powerful Object-Oriented Programming |year=2009 |publisher=O'Reilly Media, Inc. |isbn=9781449379322 |page=17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1HxWGezDZcgC&pg=PA17 |language=en |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=17 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170717044012/https://books.google.com/books?id=1HxWGezDZcgC&pg=PA17 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Fehily |first1=Chris |title=Python |year=2002 |publisher=Peachpit Press |isbn=9780201748840 |page=xv |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=carqdIdfVlYC&pg=PR15 |language=en |access-date=9 May 2017 |archive-date=17 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170717044040/https://books.google.com/books?id=carqdIdfVlYC&pg=PR15 |url-status=live}}</ref> Python users are sometimes referred to as "Pythonistas".<ref name="introducing_python">{{Cite book |publisher=Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly Media |isbn=978-1-4493-5936-2 |last=Lubanovic |first=Bill |title=Introducing Python |access-date=2023-07-31 |date=2014 |url=http://archive.org/details/introducingpytho0000luba |page=305}}</ref>

The [[affix]] ''Py'' is often used when naming Python applications or libraries. Some examples include the following:

* [[Pygame]], a [[language binding|binding]] of [[Simple DirectMedia Layer]] to Python (commonly used to create games);
* [[PyQt]] and [[PyGTK]], which bind [[Qt (software)|Qt]] and GTK to Python respectively;
* [[PyPy]], a Python implementation originally written in Python;
* [[NumPy]], a Python library for numerical processing.