python

«python» in Mova's school dictionary: a large snake that is not venomous and kills its prey by… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a python, pythons; Python — a programming language)

meaning for a pupil

1) A python is a large snake that is not venomous and kills its prey by wrapping round it and squeezing; pythons live in Africa, Asia and Australia. tree →

2) Python (with a capital P) is a popular programming language, easy to read, used in schools and by scientists and companies. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons pythons come up in reptiles and predators: they squeeze prey and swallow it whole, then may not eat again for weeks. In Australian lessons, carpet pythons sometimes live in roofs. In computing lessons pupils move from Scratch to Python to write real text code. The language was named after a British comedy show, not after the snake.

examples

• The python wrapped itself around its prey. tree →
• Pythons are not venomous; they squeeze. tree →
• A python can swallow an animal bigger than its head. tree →
• We found a carpet python in the shed! tree →
• In computing, we wrote our first program in Python. tree →
• Python code uses indentation to show blocks. tree →
• The reticulated python is one of the longest snakes in the world. tree →
• Mowgli turned and saw the great Python’s head swaying a foot above his own. tree →

note

Plural «pythons». Capital P for the language. Trap: pythons live in Africa, Asia and Australia; the similar big snakes of the Americas are boas and anacondas. Pythons squeeze to stop breathing and blood flow, not to crush bones.

In the corpora

• Snakes push their bodies against bumps on the ground to move, and pythons still have tiny leg bones left from ancestors with legs.
• Snakes are cold-blooded, so they need far less food than mammals; a big python can go months without a meal.
• Pythons, boas and anacondas are the giants of the snake world.
• The longest snake is the reticulated python of Southeast Asia, and the heaviest is the green anaconda of South America.
• Think of a python in a museum skeleton: it looks like a long zip with a rib on each side of every tooth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «python» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.