A couple of weeks ago, I rebuilt our desktop computer; the ol’ format and reinstall everything shuffle. I like to do it a couple of times a year; usually coinciding with when my annual anti virus subscription expires. It is, however, dreadfully boring downloading and reinstalling the latest versions of the software that I use all over again.
I’ve written a few Python scripts to automate various tasks, so I needed to get a Python interpreter installed on my fresh installation of Windows. After reinstalling a lot of software in a short amount of time, my brain switched to autopilot and I entered python.com in Firefox’s address bar. I hit ENTER and averted my gaze to the TV. When I turned back to look at the monitor, I noticed that there was some “hot oral and anal action” on my screen; two things that aren’t typically associated with Python programming, unless you’re shouting at your computer because the buggy Python script that you’re writing is a pain in the ass. I then noticed the “.com” that I mistakenly entered in the URL and promptly changed it to the proper python.org. I bet python.com gets many visitors who were originally looking for python.org. Yet I wonder if any people looking for python.com accidentally visit python.org and become convinced that writing code would put their to hands to…ahem…better use. I’m glad that porn sites were too late to register clever domain names for other scripting languages’ web sites like Perl; they could’ve had fun with that one 😉
