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An overly cocky Robin is defeated by an unexpectedly difficult question, and an indecisive Galahad fails an easy one; both are magically flung into the gorge. When Arthur asks for clarification on a question regarding the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow, the bridge-keeper cannot answer and is himself thrown into the gorge.
Like many things regarding Python (and the name "Python" itself), "Unladen Swallow" is a Monty Python reference, specifically to the joke about the airspeed velocity of unladen swallows in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The project's stated goals were to provide full compatibility with CPython specific code while quintupling its performance ...
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Also, the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow is only asked to King Arthur by the bridgekeeper of the bridge of death as the third question that was asked to him, and when Arthur asked the keeper whether this was a European of African swallow he was talking about, the bridgekeeper did not know.
If someone wants to know the airspeed velocity of an (unladen) swallow, he should probably find that at Swallow or Airspeed velocities of various birds or Effects of loads on the velocity of air flight or something like that. The articles on swallows seems the most natural place for this kind of information.
The swallows would have a light load of course, as a laden swallow could only travel about half as far as an unladen swallow in the same trip. He succeeded in curbing the migratory instinct in young birds and persuaded the government of France to conduct initial testing, but further experimentation stalled.
An African or European swallow? Zzyzx11 04:09, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC) What? I don't know that! AAAAAAAaaaaarggghhh! R adiant _ >|< 21:03, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC) Forty-two miles per hour. DUH! Nickptar 04:50, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC) Well, about 24 miles per hour according to Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow (but I expect the OP already ...