801 (eight-oh-one) ist die Nummer eines leeren Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP), der Name einer Band und der Refrain des Songs The True Wheel, wenn auch in umgekehrter Reihenfolge. Der PEP-Autor Barry Warsaw glaubt, es ist nur eine lustige Nummer, die einen Song und eine Band benennt, auf die einige Leute damals standen.

Die Dezimalziffer 801 ergibt hexadezimal ausgedrückt: 321 und ist auch als Oktalzahl (1441) recht unauffällig. Außerdem gilt: 801 = 3 x 3 × 89. Mehr gibt es dazu (noch) nicht zu sagen.

Barry Warsaw registered PEP 801 in Oct 2013

You’ve both reached out to me about the same topic and SO thread, so I hope you don’t mind me responding to you both. First, thanks for your love of Python! It’s a fantastic language, and even better community, and it’s been a great place to have spent the better part of my professional career.

What better than a minor mystery in a corner of a language? Python, named after the Monty Python troupe, has a rich history of humor and easter eggs, so 801 could be nothing more than that. An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, stuffed into a conundrum. A turducken PEP.

Maybe you’re right, and it’s the secret key that unlocks the Polish Python Ploy, a conspiracy of Warsawans to take over the language from the Dastardly Dutch Dozen. Or it could be a number, that when fed to a certain Python stdlib API, takes over your speakers and unstoppably plays the entire series of Flying Circus until you Silly Walk accurately in front of your webcam.

I like to think it’s just a fun number that named a song and a band some people were into back in the day, coupled with the abuse of power from a mad PEP editor everyone else is too afraid to question. Only the Python Secret Underground (PSU) -which emphatically does not exist- knows for sure.

Cheers,
-Barry

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