Pythonesque
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Etymology 1
From the name of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, referring to their signature type of humour.
Adjective
Pythonesque (comparative more Pythonesque, superlative most Pythonesque)
- (of humour) Farcically surreal or absurd.
Etymology 2
Adjective
Pythonesque (comparative more Pythonesque, superlative most Pythonesque)
- (computing, informal) Typical of, or suited to, the Python programming language.
- 2001, Andy Duncan, Sean Hull, Oracle and Open Source: Tools and Applications
- The module works by wrapping the C-extended
Tkinter
module into Pythonesque classes.
- The module works by wrapping the C-extended
- 2003, Richard Hightower, Python Programming with the Java Class Libraries:
- If you want to cut out a third line, you can rewrite the above with a lambda function, which turns four lines into one (how very Pythonesque).
- 2001, Andy Duncan, Sean Hull, Oracle and Open Source: Tools and Applications
Further reading
Monty Python on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Python (programming language) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia