When a python is resurrected, it gets a special message “The python stops pining for the fjords” as a Monty Python reference.

Occasionally when you try to attack a python in melee, you instead swap places with it and get the message: “It slithers around you; S, @ = @, S.” (replacing the @ with the hero’s glyph if they are different). This is a reference to multiple variable assignment in the Python language.

If the hero can be represented by S themselves, the displacement never happens, because S, S = S, S is not syntactically correct in some versions of Python (though it is in current versions).

Some YAFMs for pythons should be added, both Monty Python references and jokes about the Python language.

Long worms and pythons can be saddled and ridden as steeds, but only if you are a small monster.