A passenger spotted a python curled around the armrest of another passenger’s seat on a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen “bullet” train, forcing the train to make an unscheduled stop.

Now ThreeFortyNine is already ramping up planning for its “Python on Rails” train to PyCon 2014 (I’ll give ThreeFortyNine many props for that solid pun). That’s right: the locomotive fun continues in ...