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/ˈpaɪθən/noun
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- a large heavy-bodied non-venomous snake occurring throughout the Old World tropics, killing prey by constriction and asphyxiation蟒蛇, 蚺蛇; 巨蛇。
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- Family Pythonidae: genera Python (of Asia and Africa), and Morelia and Aspidites (of Australasia).蟒科：（亚洲和非洲的）蟒属, （澳大拉西亚的）莫雷利亚蟒属和盾蟒属。
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- (Python)mass noun Computing a high-level general-purpose programming language【计算机】巨蟒语言（一种高级通用编程语言）。
派生词
pythonic
adjective词源
late 16th cent. (in the Greek sense)： via Latin from Greek Puthōn, the name of a huge serpent killed by Apollo. The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.