Scenes from a class at Los Alamos National _Lab_, New Mexico. Government research centers were big early adopters of Python. All told, I taught 10 classes at LANL here, 8 each at LLNL in California and JPL in Pasadena, 7 at Fermi Lab, and 4 at other NASA sites. Plus 2 at the NSA (but you didn't hear it from me).