Python

Python may refer to:

Snakes

• Pythonidae, a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia
  • Python (genus), a genus of Pythonidae found in Africa and Asia
• Python (mythology), a mythical serpent

Computing

• Python (programming language), a widely used high-level programming language
• Python, a native code compiler for CMU Common Lisp
• 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 (4th-century BCE), orator, diplomat of Philip II of Macedon
• Python of Catana, 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), an Australian car company
• Python (Ford prototype), a Ford prototype sports car

Weaponry

• Python (missile), a series of Israeli air-to-air missiles
• Python (nuclear primary), a gas-boosted fission primary used in thermonuclear weapons
• Colt Python, a revolver

Other uses

• Python (codename), a British nuclear war contingency plan
• Python (film), a 2000 horror film by Richard Clabaugh
• Monty Python or the Pythons, a British comedy group
  • Python (Monty) Pictures, a company owned by the troupe's surviving members
• Python, a work written by philosopher Timon of Phlius

See also

• Pithon, a commune in northern France
• Pyton, a Norwegian magazine