Python may refer to:

Snakes

Pythonidae The Pythonidae, commonly known as pythons, are a Family (biology), family of Venomous snake, nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia. Among its members are some of the largest snakes in the world. Ten Genus, genera and 39 specie ...

, 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 (; '' 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, sometimes written P ...

, a mythical serpent

Computing

Python (programming language) Python is a high-level programming language, high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation. Python is type system#DYNAMIC, dynamically type-checked a ...

, a widely used high-level 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 fr ...

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

People

* Python of Aenus (4th-century BCE), student of Plato * Python (painter) (ca. 360–320 BCE), vase painter in Poseidonia *

Python of Byzantium Python of Byzantium () 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, Python represented Philip II of Macedo ...

(4th-century BCE), orator, diplomat of Philip II of Macedon *

Python of Catana Python of Catana, Magna Graecia, was a dramatic poet of the time of Alexander the Great, Alexander, whom he accompanied into Asia, and whose army he entertained with a satyric drama, called ''Agen ()'' when they were celebrating the Dionysia on t ...

, poet who accompanied Alexander the Great * Python Anghelo (1954–2014), Romanian graphic artist

Roller coasters

* Python (Efteling), a roller coaster in the Netherlands * Python (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay), a defunct roller coaster * Python (Coney Island, Cincinnati, Ohio), a steel roller coaster

Vehicles

Python (automobile maker) Python is a Cobra replica automobile company based in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1979, 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 *

Python (Ford prototype) The Python is a small- production run sports car modeled closely after a prototype designed by Ford in the mid-1960s when Ford's Vice President of Design, Eugene 'Gene' Bordinat (pronounced Bor-din-ay), designed a new body for Carroll Shelby t ...

, a Ford prototype sports car

Weaponry

Python (missile) The Rafael Python (stylized all Letter case, uppercase; ''פיתון'') is a family of air-to-air missiles (AAMs) built by the Israeli weapons manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, formerly RAFAEL Armament Development Authority. Originall ...

, a series of Israeli air-to-air missiles *

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, W2 ...

, a gas-boosted fission primary used in thermonuclear weapons *

Colt Python The Colt Python is a double action/single action revolver chambered for the .357 Magnum cartridge. It was first introduced in 1955 by the Colt's Manufacturing Company. Dougherty, Martin ''Small Arms: From the Civil War to the Present Day'', Ne ...

, 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 ...

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

Monty Python Monty Python, also known as the Pythons, were a British comedy troupe formed in 1969 consisting of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. The group came to prominence for the sketch comedy ser ...

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 ...

, a company owned by the troupe's surviving members * ''Python'', a work written by philosopher

Timon of Phlius Timon of Phlius (; , , ; BCc. 235 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher from the Hellenistic period, who was the student of Pyrrho. Unlike Pyrrho, who wrote nothing, Timon wrote satirical philosophical poetry called ''Silloi'' () as well ...