Python

//ˈpaɪθɑn//

"Python" in a Sentence (14 examples)

Do you have python snakes?

GCC is a compiler while Python is an interpreter.

The syntax of Python scripts is very simple.

Tom thought Mary knew how to program in Python, JavaScript and Perl.

I also showed an example of a simple but complete plugin system for an application, all written in Python.

But see, Python has the unfortunate habit of making everything look too easy. To really show the guts of a plugin infrastructure, we’ll switch to C.

C is the perfect "other extreme" to Python. It’s the most low level of the mainstream programming languages, and almost universally serves as glue between other languages and systems.

He is a young entrepreneur Python programmer, system analysis student, with expertise in hardware, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery, among other things.

My major points of interest are: programming in Python, medicine, mathematics and computer games.

Life's short, so I use Python!

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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.

Python, says Bailey, is derived from Putho to putrify, and the serpent Python being slain by Apollo, is thus interpreted: by Python is understood the ruin of the waters; Apollo slew this serpent with his arrows; that is, the beams of the sun dispersed the noxious vapours, which destroyed man like a devouring serpent.

John Cleese is perhaps the best-known of the Pythons.

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