Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various nonvenomous snakes of the family Pythonidae, found chiefly in Asia, Africa, and Australia, that coil around and asphyxiate their prey. Some pythons can attain lengths of 8 meters (26 feet) or more.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In classical antiquities and in the New Testament, a soothsaying spirit or demon; hence, also, a person possessed by such a spirit; especially, a ventriloquist.
- noun [lowercase] Any very large serpent, as a rock-snake: loosely used, like
boa and anaconda, but properly applicable only to the large Old World non-venomous serpents of the family Pythonidæ. - noun The typical genus of Pythonidæ: formerly conterminous with the family, now restricted to species having premaxillary teeth, labial plates of both jaws fossate, and scuta extending to between the orbits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family
Pythonidæ . They are nearly allied to the boas. Called alsorock snake . - noun A diviner by spirits.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of large
constricting snake .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi
- noun large Old World boas
- noun a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A Burmese python is coiled around the arm of hunter Michael Cole during a news conference Monday, Feb. 22.
Plan to block giant snakes in Florida may hurt businesses 2010
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My CS son, age 16, has been bugging the people I work with to give him a “climate change” or “fuel balance” model (2 different ideas) that he could make into a video game in python or Java.
“Daddy, what did YOU do in the climate wars?” | Serendipity 2009
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A Burmese python is coiled around the arm of hunter Michael Cole during a news conference Monday, Feb. 22.
Offbeat News: Weird, strange, crazy and odd stories and headlines 2010
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Those findings add to concerns that the African rock python is a new breeding population in the Everglades and not just the result of a few overgrown pets being released into the wild, according to the South Florida Water Management District.
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Wrangled a 16 'python from a wooden crate into a big duffle bag then sat and watched TV that night with a 7 foot boa on my back.
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As a college professor who teaches students that have never seen programming before, python is a great language.
PyJunior: Call For Documentation Help! | jonobacon@home 2010
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As a college professor who teaches students that have never seen programming before, python is a great language.
PyJunior: Call For Documentation Help! | jonobacon@home 2010
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However, all this is void unless you also enable threads by calling g_thread_init () (or whatever this is in python) early in your app.
Downloading Large Files Async With GIO | jonobacon@home 2010
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So the project has the snippets in python-snippets and Acire as a desktop frontend.
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Wrangled a 16 'python from a wooden crate into a big duffle bag then sat and watched TV that night with a 7 foot boa on my back.
narniabound commented on the word python
From Greek mythology
"earth-dragon of Delphi"
(Wikipedia)
January 21, 2008
bookhling commented on the word python
There is also a very neat computer scripting language by the name of python.
July 15, 2008