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Pydong is the blog name.

* As you can see by opening the link, "pydong" is the name of the blog, not the Python preprocessor

* I'm glad that we are not ants. Deciding everything "as a community" would be hell

Dong is a very common name in some countries.

I think it's the name of Vietnam's currency.

Also a common name as is Phuc.

I had a partner that was a translation coordinator and they would play me this VM from one of the Vietnamese translators, every time he called he would say, “Hi this Phuc, ha ha that is funny to you, anyway …”

Not a prude but this name just reeks of immaturity.

To me it was always just a silly way of pronouncing "Python", especially in reference to terrible shenanigans like the ones the post talks about :P

Isn’t it a play on words/reference to Pudong in China? It’s a nice central part of Shanghai.

PrePy could have worked... I guess lol maybe it was taken, cause Pydong... yeah.

I had actually considered PrePy and variations thereof for the magic_codec project (which is the example implementation showcased in that post), unfortunately all of these had been used by other projects before. Pydong is the name of the blog :)

Ah I did not realize this. Whoops. Thanks for clarifying!