Intuitive Python

Chapter 1Diving into Life with Python

Eric could not stop laughing. We’d only just begun watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail and he was in stitches. Pretty soon the movie started catching me too, and I couldn’t help but laugh. For days afterward, we repeated our favorite gags—questioning each other about the airspeed velocity of unladen swallows and constantly yelling, “it’s just a flesh wound!”

In case you haven’t seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, it’s a 1975 film by a surreal comedy troupe called Monty Python. Suffice to say, their movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail is absurd. Eric and I were only maybe eight or nine years old when we first saw it, which probably made the movie all the more hilarious to us.

Fast forward ten years ...