Definition of Python

Python
1. <language> A simple, high-level interpreted language by Guido van Rossum guido@cwi.nl, 1991. Python combines ideas from ABC, C, Modula-3 and Icon. It bridges the gap between C and shell programming, making it suitable for rapid prototyping or as an extension language for C applications. It is object-oriented and supports packages, modules, classes, user-defined exceptions, a good C interface, dynamic loading of C modules and has no arbitrary restrictions.
Python is available, among others, for Unix, Windows, DOS, OS/2, Macintosh, and Amoeba.
Current version: 1.4, includes interpreter, libraries, and documentation.
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2. A compiler for CMU Common LISP. Python is more sophisticated than other Common Lisp compilers. It produces better code and is easier to use. The programming environment based on the Hemlock editor is better integrated than GNU Emacs based environments.
(1997-02-27)

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/pi:'thon/ In the words of its author, "the other scripting language" (other than Perl, that is). Python's design is notably clean, elegant, and well thought through; it tends to attract the sort of programmers who find Perl grubby and exiguous. Python's relationship with Perl is rather like the BSD community's relationship to Linux - it's the smaller party in a (usually friendly) rivalry, but the average quality of its developers is generally conceded to be rather higher than in the larger community it competes with. There's a Python resource page at http://www.python.org. See also Guido.

Python
An interpreted, object-oriented programming language developed by Guido van Rossum. The name comes from one of van Rossum's favorite television shows, Monty Python's Flying Circus. Python is very portable since Python interpreters are available for most operating system platforms. Although Python is copyrighted, the source code is freely available, and unlike GNU software, it can be commercially re-sold.

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Python is a powerful, interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. Python is open source
and can run on almost any platform or system.

Homepage: www.python.org

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(n.)
Any species of very large snakes of the genus Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonidae. They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock snake.
  
(n.)
A diviner by spirits.
  

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Noun
1. (Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi
(hypernym) mythical monster, mythical creature
(classification) Greek mythology

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Noun
1. large Old World boas
(hypernym) boa
(hyponym) carpet snake, Python variegatus, Morelia spilotes variegatus
(member-holonym) Pythoninae, subfamily Pythoninae
2. a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit
(hypernym) spirit, disembodied spirit

Further behind than a Python's arsehole
a long way away

Siphon the python
(of a male) urinate

Syphon the python
urinate

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      typhon

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\py"thon\ (?), n. [nl., fr. l. python the serpent slain near delphi by apollo, gr. &?;.]
1. (zo?l.) any species of very large snakes of the genus python, and allied genera, of the family pythonid?. they are nearly allied to the boas. called also rock snake
note: the pythons have small pelvic bones, or anal spurs, two rows of subcaudal scales, and pitted labials. they are found in africa, asia, and the east indies.
2. a diviner by spirits. "[manasses] observed omens, and appointed pythons." --4 kings xxi. 6 (douay version).
python
n
1. large old world boas
2. a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit
3. (greek mythology) dragon killed by apollo at delphi [syn: python]

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 python sebae 
 rock python 
 python reticulatus 
 reticulated python 
 indian python 

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Python = n. system of the world

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familiar spirit/demon possessing soothsayer; soothsayer; snake slain at Delphi

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Python (Greek) The serpent slain by Apollo, who was therefore called Pythius. At one time the world was covered with temples to the sun and dragon: the Ophites adopted it from Egypt, whither it had come from India. It is seen in the story of Bel and the Dragon, of St. George or St. Michael and the Dragon, of Osiris and Typhon, Krishna and Kaliya, and the Lord God and the Serpent of Eden. The cosmic dragon represents the shadow side of the logos, and the opposition between these two is the so-called war in heaven. The dual nature of the serpent is seen in Rahu and Ketu, the Dragon's head and tail; and Typhon or Apophis, slain by Horus is also called Set, who is in one of his permutations Hermes, god of wisdom, and whose name likewise is that of the Biblical Seth and Satan. In initiations the inner enlightened individual had to confront his lower passions, now personified into a veritable astral monster, and to be either its victor or its victim; when victorious he became the spiritual serpent in its other sense of the dragon of wisdom. This double meaning has its correspondence in the fact that snakes shed their skin and reemerge purified, just as the neophyte through training and initiation sheds the Old Person and reemerges from the tests as the New Person.

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