Python may refer to:
Snakes
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Pythonidae, 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), a mythical serpent
Computing
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Python (programming language), 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 (4th-century BCE), student of Plato
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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 As ...
, (ca. 360–320 BCE) vase painter in Poseidonia
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Python of Byzantium, orator, diplomat of Philip II of Macedon
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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
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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)
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 the ...
, a steel roller coaster
Vehicles
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Python (automobile maker), an Australian car company
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Python (Ford prototype), a Ford prototype sports car
Weaponry
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Python (missile), a series of Israeli air-to-air missiles
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Python (nuclear primary), a gas-boosted fission primary used in thermonuclear weapons
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Colt Python, a revolver
Other uses
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Python (codename), 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
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 four ...
or the Pythons, a British comedy group
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Python (Monty) Pictures, a company owned by the troupe's surviving members
* ''Python'', a work written by philosopher
Timon of Phlius
See also
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Cython, a programming language superset of Python
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Pyton'', a Norwegian magazine
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Pithon, a commune in northern France
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