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Python is a genus of constricting snakes in the Pythonidae family native to the tropics and subtropics of the Eastern Hemisphere. The name python was proposed by François Marie Daudin in 1803 for non-venomous flecked snakes. Currently, 10 python species are recognized as valid taxa. Three formerly considered python subspecies have been promoted, and a new species recognized. Taxonomy The generic name Python was proposed by François Marie Daudin in 1803 for non-venomous snakes with a flecked skin and a long split tongue.

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“And what defines a 'python activist' anyway? Blowing up Perl installations worldwide?”
— Ivan Van Laningham, June 2005, on comp. lang. python
“As it seems to me, in Perl you have to be an expert to correctly make a nested data structure like, say, a list of hashes of instances. In Python, you have to be an idiot not to be able to do it, because you just write it down.”
— , August 2000, on comp.lang.functional
“Python is more concerned with making it easy to write good programs than difficult to write bad ones.”
— Steve Holden, June 2005, on comp.lang.python

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Python: 1978 air-to-air missile family by RAFAEL · British contingency plan for continuity of government · automobile maker · steel roller coaster in Coney Island

Notable quotes

“And what defines a 'python activist' anyway? Blowing up Perl installations worldwide?”
— Ivan Van Laningham, June 2005, on comp. lang. python
“As it seems to me, in Perl you have to be an expert to correctly make a nested data structure like, say, a list of hashes of instances. In Python, you have to be an idiot not to be able to do it, because you just write it down.”
— , August 2000, on comp.lang.functional
“Python is more concerned with making it easy to write good programs than difficult to write bad ones.”
— Steve Holden, June 2005, on comp.lang.python

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Python is a genus of constricting snakes in the Pythonidae family native to the tropics and subtropics of the Eastern Hemisphere. The name python was proposed by François Marie Daudin in 1803 for non-venomous flecked snakes. Currently, 10 python species are recognized as valid taxa. Three formerly considered python subspecies have been promoted, and a new species recognized. Taxonomy The generic name Python was proposed by François Marie Daudin in 1803 for non-venomous snakes with a flecked skin and a long split tongue.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).