Python may refer to:

Snakes

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. Distributi ...

, a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia ** ''Python'' (genus), a genus of Pythonidae found in Africa and Asia *

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, s ...

, a mythical serpent

Computing

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 CMUCL is a free Common Lisp implementation, originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University. CMUCL runs on most Unix-like platforms, including Linux and BSD; there is an experimental Windows port as well. Steel Bank Common Lisp is derived f ...

* Python, the internal project name for the PERQ 3 computer workstation

People

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's ''Agai ...

(4th-century BCE), student of Plato *

Python (painter) Python (ca. 360-320 BCE) was a Greek vase painter in the city of Poseidonia (modern Paestum) in Campania, Southern Italy, one of the major cities of Magna Graecia in the fourth Century BC. Together with his close collaborator and likely master A ...

, (ca. 360–320 BCE) vase painter in Poseidonia *

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 *

Python of Catana Python of Catana was a dramatic poet of the time of Alexander, whom he accompanied into Asia, and whose army he entertained with a satyric drama, called ''Agen ()'' when they were celebrating the Dionysia on the banks of the Hydaspes. The drama w ...

, poet who accompanied Alexander the Great *

Python Anghelo Python Vladimir Anghelo (January 1, 1954 – April 9, 2014) was a graphic artist best known for his work on video games and pinball machines. Anghelo was born in Transylvania, Romania, and moved to the United States when he was 17. Care ...

(1954–2014) Romanian graphic artist

Roller coasters

Python (Efteling) Python is a double- loop corkscrew roller coaster in the Efteling amusement park in the Netherlands. It opened as the largest steel roller coaster on the European mainland. History With Python, Efteling started the implementation of a new stra ...

, a roller coaster in the Netherlands *

Python (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay) Python was a steel roller coaster located at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay theme park in Tampa, Florida. Built by Arrow Development and opened on July 1, 1976, it was the first roller coaster at Busch Gardens since the park opened in 1959. The roller c ...

, a defunct roller coaster *

Python (Coney Island, Cincinnati, Ohio) The Python was a D.P.V. Rides designed Zyklon-style steel roller coaster. It operated from 1996 to 1999 at Splash Zone Water Park, but was relocated to Coney Island Coney Island is a peninsular neighborhood and entertainment area in th ...

, a steel roller coaster

Vehicles

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 For ...

, an Australian car company *

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

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 * Python (nuclear primary), a gas-boosted fission primary used in thermonuclear weapons *

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

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 f ...

, a British nuclear war contingency plan * ''Python'' (film), a 2000 horror film by Richard Clabaugh *

Monty Python Monty Python (also collectively known as the Pythons) were a British comedy troupe who created the sketch comedy television show ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'', which first aired on the BBC in 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over fou ...

or the Pythons, a British comedy group **

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 ...