# Python

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**Python** may refer to:

## Snakes

- [Pythonidae](/source/Pythonidae), a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia - [*Python* (genus)](/source/Python_(genus)), a genus of Pythonidae found in Africa and Asia
- [Python (mythology)](/source/Python_(mythology)), a mythical serpent

## Computing

- [Python (programming language)](/source/Python_(programming_language)), a widely used high-level programming language
- Python, a native code compiler for [CMU Common Lisp](/source/CMU_Common_Lisp)
- Python, the internal project name for the [PERQ 3](/source/PERQ#PERQ_3) computer workstation

## Media

- [*Python* (film)](/source/Python_(film)), a 2000 horror film by Richard Clabaugh
- [Monty Python](/source/Monty_Python) or the Pythons, a British comedy group - [Python (Monty) Pictures](/source/Python_(Monty)_Pictures), a company owned by the troupe's surviving members
- *Python*, a work written by philosopher [Timon of Phlius](/source/Timon_of_Phlius)

## People

- [Python of Aenus](/source/Python_of_Aenus) (4th-century BCE), student of Plato
- [Python (painter)](/source/Python_(painter)) (ca. 360–320 BCE), vase painter in Poseidonia
- [Python of Byzantium](/source/Python_of_Byzantium) (4th-century BCE), orator, diplomat of Philip II of Macedon
- [Python of Catana](/source/Python_of_Catana), poet who accompanied Alexander the Great
- [Python Anghelo](/source/Python_Anghelo) (1954–2014), Romanian graphic artist

## Roller coasters

- [Python (Efteling)](/source/Python_(Efteling)), a roller coaster in the Netherlands
- [Python (Busch Gardens Tampa Bay)](/source/Python_(Busch_Gardens_Tampa_Bay)), Florida, United States, a defunct roller coaster
- [Python (Coney Island, Cincinnati, Ohio)](/source/Python_(Coney_Island,_Cincinnati,_Ohio)), United States, a steel roller coaster
- [Klondike Gold Mine](/source/Klondike_Gold_Mine), at Drayton Manor, Staffordshire, England, formerly called "The Python"

## Vehicles

- [Python (automobile maker)](/source/Python_(automobile_maker)), an Australian car company
- [Python (Ford prototype)](/source/Python_(Ford_prototype)), a Ford prototype sports car

## Weaponry and war

- [Python (missile)](/source/Python_(missile)), a series of Israeli air-to-air missiles
- [Python (nuclear primary)](/source/Python_(nuclear_primary)), a gas-boosted fission primary used in thermonuclear weapons
- [Colt Python](/source/Colt_Python), a revolver
- [Python (codename)](/source/Python_(codename)), a British nuclear war contingency plan
- [Operation Python](/source/Operation_Python), Indian naval operation during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

## See also

- [Pithon](/source/Pithon), a commune in northern France
- *[Pyton](/source/Pyton)*, a Norwegian magazine

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