Rd. 3646L New Word -- distelfink

[nancygoat]

Well, good luck to us all as I am dealer again. And the word, in all its glory is: 

Distelfink.

Please send your DQs (ASAP) and clever made-up definitions to this email address:

nancyshepherdson @ hotmail.com

Otherwise, I might not find them.

The deadline is 36-ish hours from now: 11:30am CDT Wednesday May 6 or 4:30pm GMT also Wednesday. I trust you can figure out your local deadline time.

Happy defining!

Nancy

[nancygoat]

That should be "Rd. 3646:" There are no A through K that would lead to an "L" round. Here we go again.

[Daniel B. Widdis]

I was wondering if we needed 64 bit numbers to count the rounds yet.

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[Efrem Mallach]

Nancy,

I know this word.

Efrem

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[Paul Keating]

Even If we do, Python conventions apply. 

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[nancygoat]

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[nancygoat]

Thanks, Efrem. It is a go anyway. (And you may not actually know it, just sayin') Do you want to submit a def?

[Efrem Mallach]

I will; I think I have 3+ hours to do it. And, if I don't see what I think it means, I'll withdraw the DQ and vote.

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[Paul Keating]

The Python convention is that 3646L means the same thing as 3646 and the L accepted but ignored. This is (or rather was, until 2019) to make things easier for for programmers accustomed to writing the L suffix, which only has meaning in languages like C, and in versions of Python from before 2003.

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On 2026-05-06 07:16:07, nancygoat <nanc...@gmail.com> wrote:

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On Tuesday, May 5, 2026 at 11:21:25 AM UTC-5 Paul Keating wrote:

Even If we do, Python conventions apply. 

[Chowie]

Are you sorry you asked now?

~Bending under the weight of His mercies~

"Life is short, God is real, Heaven is coming." 

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[nancygoat]

Yes!!

[nancygoat]

I thought it had something to do with Monty Python.

[Paul Keating]

Well, it does. The programming language Python was named after Monty Python, because the creator of the language, Guido van Rossum, was a Monty Python fan. And the early documentation is full of in-jokes about cheese shops.

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On 2026-05-06 21:35:00, nancygoat <nanc...@gmail.com> wrote:

I thought it had something to do with Monty Python.