This is the mascot for Boston Python.
It’s called Snake Way for Ducklings:My son Ben drew it, which makes me very happy. He also drew
Sleepy Snake. Wearing this image on a
shirt around PyCon, I had
to explain it a number of times. People in Boston understand it almost
immediately, but others need more background.In 1941, Robert McCloskey wrote a children’s book called
Make Way for
Ducklings. It’s a classic, selling millions of copies and never going out
of print. We read it to our own children growing up many times.The book is the story of Mrs. Mallard making her way through Boston guiding
her eight ducklings (Jack, Kack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Oack, Pack, and Quack) to a
pond in Boston’s Public…