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Python has a thing for Spam (and Eggs)

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by e-dant • 11 months ago

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zahlman• 11 months ago

This URL doesn't encode your search parameters.

But it shouldn't be surprising that you find a lot of Python projects on GitHub referencing spam, given that the documentation does all over the place as well (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Adocs.python.org+spam). It's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable preferred in the Python community, honouring the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(Monty_Python_sketch). See also https://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html#why-is-it-called-....

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