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A python is a very big snake that lives in hot parts of Africa, Asia, and Australia. It does not kill with poison. It winds its long body around an animal and squeezes until the animal cannot breathe, then swallows it whole — sometimes something as large as a pig or a deer. Some kinds grow longer than a car; a few are among the longest snakes on earth. People do keep smaller kinds as pets, though actually even a 'small' python is still heavy and strong and needs a lot of space. In films the word is often just shorthand for 'huge crushing snake.' The name comes from a giant in old Greek stories, killed by the god Apollo at a place once called Pytho (later Delphi); that place-name is tied to a Greek word meaning to rot. The computer language Python is a different story altogether: it was named after the British comedy group Monty Python, not after this snake, even though the letters are the same.
組成From Ancient Greek Πύθων (Púthōn), from Πῡθώ (Pūthṓ), the early name of Delphi, from πύθω (púthō, “to rot, to decay”).
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Pythonname/ˈpaɪθən/
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human-sciencesmysticismmythologyThe earth-dragon of Delphi, represented as a serpent, killed by Apollo.
- Here Apollo killed a serpent called the Python, and established a great prophetic shrine. Sometimes it is said that the Titaness Themis had the shrine before him, and this, as well as the killing of the Python, suggests that Apollo took over a place already of religious significance, associated with chthonic (i.e., earth) powers.
- It would seem, therefore, that what we have on the Phasian phiale is the Python coiled round the omphalos.[…]Paintings on Greek pottery and coins have preserved many an example of gods seated on an omphalos, including those of Apollo, Nike, Asclepius and others.⁴¹³ Python on the omphalos must have carried some symbolic meaning.
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computer-languagescomputingengineeringAn interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language invented by Guido van Rossum.
Pythonnoun/ˈpaɪθən/
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informalAny member of the comedy troupe Monty Python: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones or Michael Palin.
- John Cleese is perhaps the best-known of the Pythons.
- Its cast included eventual co-Goodie Tim Brooke-Taylor and embryo Pythons Graham Chapman and John Cleese.
pythonnoun/ˈpaɪθən/
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyAny of the family Pythonidae of nonvenomous constrictor snakes.
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vulgarslangA penis.
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