Python may refer to:
Snakes
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Pythonidae
The Pythonidae, commonly known as pythons, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia. Among its members are some of the largest snakes in the world. Ten genera and 42 species are currently recognized.
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, a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia
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''Python'' (genus), a genus of Pythonidae found in Africa and Asia
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Python (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Python ( el, Πύθων; ''gen''. Πύθωνος) was the serpent, sometimes represented as a medieval-style dragon, living at the center of the earth, believed by the ancient Greeks to be at Delphi.
Mythology
Python, som ...
, a mythical serpent
Computing
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Python (programming language)
Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation.
Python is dynamically-typed and garbage-collected. It supports multiple programming p ...
, a widely used programming language
* Python, a native code compiler for
CMU Common Lisp
* Python, the internal project name for the
PERQ 3 computer workstation
People
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Python of Aenus
Python of Aenus (; el, Πύθων Αἴνιος; fl. 4th-century BCE) was a Greek philosopher and a former student of Plato. Around 360 BC, he and his brother Heraclides assassinated Cotys I, the ruler of Thrace.
Based on Demosthenes
Demos ...
(4th-century BCE), student of Plato
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Python (painter), (ca. 360–320 BCE) vase painter in Poseidonia
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Python of Byzantium Python of Byzantium ( el, Πύθων ὁ Βυζάντιος) was an ancient Greek statesman and former student of Isocrates. In 346 BC, he appears to have participated in negotiations at Pella that resulted in the Peace of Philocrates. In 343 BC, P ...
, orator, diplomat of Philip II of Macedon
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Python of Catana, poet who accompanied Alexander the Great
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Python Anghelo (1954–2014) Romanian graphic artist
Roller coasters
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Python (Efteling), a roller coaster in the Netherlands
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Python (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay), a defunct roller coaster
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Python (Coney Island, Cincinnati, Ohio), a steel roller coaster
Vehicles
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Python (automobile maker)
Python is a Cobra replica automobile company based in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1981, this company has no relation to the more widely known Python automobile created in the 1980s by Kelly Motors at Riverside, California and later at Fort ...
, an Australian car company
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Python (Ford prototype)
The Python is a relatively unknown prototype sports car by Ford. It originally started in the mid-1960s when Ford's Vice President of Design, Eugene Bordinat, was designing a new body for Carroll Shelby to use as a replacement for the AC Cobra. ...
, a Ford prototype sports car
Weaponry
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Python (missile)
The Rafael Python is a family of air-to-air missiles (AAMs) built by the Israeli weapons manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, formerly RAFAEL Armament Development Authority. Originally starting with the ''Shafrir'' ( he, שפריר, loo ...
, a series of Israeli air-to-air missiles
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Python (nuclear primary)
According to researcher Chuck Hansen, the W34 Python was a gas-boosted fission primary used in several designs of American thermonuclear weapons.
Hansen's research indicates that the W34 Python primary was used in the US B28 nuclear bomb, W28, ...
, a gas-boosted fission primary used in thermonuclear weapons
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Colt Python
The Colt Python is a .357 Magnum caliber revolver manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut.Dougherty, Martin ''Small Arms: From the Civil War to the Present Day'', New York City: Fall River Press, 2005, page 48. It w ...
, a revolver
Other uses
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Python (codename)
Python was a Cold War contingency plan of the British Government for the continuity of government in the event of nuclear war.
Background
Following the report of the Strath Committee in 1955, the British government developed contingency plans ...
, a British nuclear war contingency plan
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''Python'' (film), a 2000 horror film by Richard Clabaugh
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Monty Python or the Pythons, a British comedy group
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Python (Monty) Pictures
Python (Monty) Pictures Limited is composed of the four surviving members of the main Monty Python team, who now serve as the directors. Python (Monty) Pictures was incorporated in 1973 and now manages ongoing activities resulting from their p ...
, a company owned by the troupe's surviving members
* ''Python'', a work written by philosopher
Timon of Phlius
Timon of Phlius ( ; grc, Τίμων ὁ Φλιάσιος, Tímōn ho Phliásios, , ; BCc. 235 BC) was a Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher, a pupil of Pyrrho, and a celebrated writer of satirical poems called ''Silloi'' (). He was born in ...
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Cython
Cython () is a programming language that aims to be a superset of the Python programming language, designed to give C-like performance with code that is written mostly in Python with optional additional C-inspired syntax.
Cython is a compiled ...
, a programming language superset of Python
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Pyton
''Pyton'' was a Norwegian comic book series which was produced by the company Gevion, and afterwards Bladkompaniet, between the years 1986 until 1996. An anthology magazine with no major main character, its style of humor focused mostly on satir ...
'', a Norwegian magazine
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Pithon
Pithon () is a commune in the Aisne department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Population
See also
* Communes of the Aisne department
The following is a list of the 799 communes in the French department of Aisne.
The commun ...
, a commune in northern France
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