1. any of a genus of large, nonpoisonous snakes of Asia, Africa and Australia that crush their prey to death. . . . 3. totally awesome, bitchin' language that will someday crush the $'s out of certain other so-called VHLL's ;-) -Guido van Rossum from the Python Web site ( This week, Gearhead looks at a way-cool programming language called Python. "Not another language!" Gearhead hears you cry. "Why should we care about Python?" The answer is Python is easy to learn, efficient, stable, elegant and available on a significant number of platforms. It also
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