PY, Py, py or P-Y may stand for:

People

Eugène Py Eugène Py (19 May 1859 – 26 August 1924), Hispanized as Eugenio Py, was a French-born Argentine cameraman, cinematographer and film director. Py is widely considered the founding pioneer of the cinema of Argentina. Life and career Born in ...

, a French cinema pioneer of the Cinema of Argentina *

Jorge Py Jorge Tavares Py (14 November 1898 – 9 March 1930) was a Brazilian footballer who played as a defender. Career A renowned defender at Grêmio, he made 143 appearances for the club, winning the Porto Alegre city championship several times a ...

, a Brazilian footballer *

Olivier Py Olivier Py (; born 24 July 1965 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes) is a French stage director, actor and writer. Career In 1997, Py became director of the Centre dramatique national d'Orléans. In 2007, he became director of the Théâtre de l'Odéon i ...

, a French stage director, actor and writer * Delphine Py-Bilot, a French triathlete *

Piye Piye (also interpreted as Pankhy or Piankhi; was an ancient Kushite king and founder of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled Egypt from 744–714 BC. He ruled from the city of Napata, located deep in Nubia, modern-day Sudan. Name Piye ...

, a Kushite king and founder of the Twenty-fifth dynasty of Egypt *

Pierre-Yves Gerbeau Pierre-Yves Gerbeau (born 16 October 1965, often shortened to P.Y. Gerbeau)P ...

, French businessman

Science and technology

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 ...

, which uses the filename extension '.py' * .py, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for

Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli ...

* py (unit), a Korean unit of floorspace area *

petayear A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year (approximately 365 solar days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds) and the sidereal year (about 20 minutes longer) are more exa ...

, Py, 10¹⁵ year *

Py (cipher) Py is a stream cipher submitted to eSTREAM by Eli Biham and Jennifer Seberry. It is one of the fastest eSTREAM candidates at around 2.6 cycles per byte on some platforms. It has a structure a little like RC4, but adds an array of 260 32-bit word ...

, a stream cipher designed by Eli Biham and Jennifer Seberry *

p-y method In geotechnical civil engineering, the p–y is a method of analyzing the ability of deep foundations to resist loads applied in the lateral direction. This method uses the finite difference method and p-y graphs to find a solution. P–y ...

, for assessing the load-bearing abilities of deep foundations *

Permalloy Permalloy () is a nickel–iron magnetic alloy, with about 80% nickel and 20% iron content. Invented in 1914 by physicist Gustav Elmen at Bell Telephone Laboratories, it is notable for its very high magnetic permeability, which makes it useful ...

, a nickel-iron magnetic alloy *

Pyridine Pyridine is a basic (chemistry), basic heterocyclic compound, heterocyclic organic compound with the chemical formula . It is structurally related to benzene, with one methine group replaced by a nitrogen atom . It is a highly flammable, weak ...

, a common monodentate ligand in coordination chemistry, abbreviated as 'py'

Other uses

Py, Pyrénées-Orientales Py (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales Departments of France, department in southern France. Geography Py is in the canton of Le Canigou and in the arrondissement of Prades. Population See also *Communes o ...

, a ''commune'' of the Pyrénées-Orientales ''département'' in southwestern France *

Pack year Pack or packs may refer to: Music * Packs (band), a Canadian indie rock band * ''Packs'' (album), by Your Old Droog * ''Packs'', a Berner album Places * Pack, Styria, defunct Austrian municipality * Pack, Missouri, United States (US) * ...

, a measure of cigarette smoking *

, ISO 3166-1 country code *

Puducherry Puducherry or Pondicherry may refer to: Places in India * Puducherry (union territory), formerly known as Pondicherry ** Puducherry (city), capital of the union territory of Puducherry ** Puducherry district The Puducherry District, also know ...

, formerly Pondicherry, a union territory of India *

Pinyin Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...

, a system of romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration to Roman script) for Mandarin Chinese * Portsmouth yardstick, used as a rating system in yacht racing and dinghy racing *

Surinam Airways Surinam Airways (), also known by its initials ''SLM'', is the flag carrier of Suriname, based in Paramaribo. It operates regional and long-haul scheduled passenger services. Its hub is at Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport (Zanderij). Sur ...

(IATA airline designator PY) * A US Navy hull classification symbol: Patrol yacht (PY) {{disambiguation, surname