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diff --git a/bot/resources/utilities/python_facts.txt b/bot/resources/utilities/python_facts.txt index 0abd971b..f02fcd16 100644 --- a/bot/resources/utilities/python_facts.txt +++ b/bot/resources/utilities/python_facts.txt @@ -1,3 +1,17 @@ Python was named after Monty Python, a British Comedy Troupe, which Guido van Rossum likes. If you type `import this` in the Python REPL, you'll get a poem about the philosophies about Python. (check it out by doing !zen in <#267659945086812160>) If you type `import antigravity` in the Python REPL, you'll be directed to an [xkcd comic](https://xkcd.com/353/) about how easy Python is. +Python's first public release was in 1991, making it a few years older than Java! +Python was invented by Guido van Rossum, affectionately known as the 'Benevolent Dictator For Life' (BDFL) of Python until he stepped down in 2018. +If you type `from __future__ import braces` in the REPL, you’ll get an interesting `SyntaxError` about whether it will be implemented. +Not only did Guido van Rossum name Python after Monty Python, the Python docs are riddled with Monty Python skit references. +Python is a multi-paradigm programming language providing support for procedural, object-oriented, and even functional paradigms. +There are many implementations of Python; like Jython, which runs on the Java Virtual Machine; IronPython, which runs on .NET; and pypy, which uses a just-in-time compiler. +There is a module named `turtledemo` that animates and creates things with the `turtle` module. An example animation is `turtledemo.sorting_animate`, which can be tested using `from turtledemo.sorting_animate import main; main()`. +When you do `hash(float('inf'))` or `hash(math.inf)`, you'll get the first few digits of pi but as an int: `314159`. +The Python logo is based on Mayan representations of snakes! +At the time of writing, small integers in Python (from -5 to 256) are cached and reused, so they will always compare identically (`a is b` will be `True` if `a` and `b` are the same number and in this range). +Dictionaries are guaranteed to preserve insertion order since Python 3.7. +The canonical implementation of Python is written in C, known as CPython (available from [python.org](<https://python.org/>)! +The assignment expression operator (`:=`), introduced in Python 3.8, is known as the "walrus operator" due to its shape! +In Python, `bool` is actually a subclass of `int` (and you can perform math with `True` and `False` just as though they were `1` and `0`)! |