NOUN (3)

1. large Old World boas;

2. a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a spirit;

3. (Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi;

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Python \Py"thon\, n. [NL., fr. L. Python the serpent slain near
   Delphi by Apollo, Gr. ?.]
   1. (Zool.) Any species of very large snakes of the genus
      Python, and allied genera, of the family Pythonid[ae].
      They are nearly allied to the boas. Called also rock
      snake.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: The pythons have small pelvic bones, or anal spurs, two
         rows of subcaudal scales, and pitted labials. They are
         found in Africa, Asia, and the East Indies.
         [1913 Webster]

   2. A diviner by spirits. "[Manasses] observed omens, and
      appointed pythons." --4 Kings xxi. 6 (Douay version).
      [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

python
    n 1: large Old World boas
    2: a soothsaying spirit or a person who is possessed by such a
       spirit
    3: (Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi

The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

Python
 /pi:'thon/

    In the words of its author, ?the other scripting language? (other than 
    Perl, that is). Python's design is notably clean, elegant, and well
    thought through; it tends to attract the sort of programmers who find Perl
    grubby and exiguous. Some people revolt at its use of whitespace to define
    logical structure by indentation, objecting that this harks back to the
    horrible old fixed-field languages of the 1960s. Python's relationship with
    Perl is rather like the BSD community's relationship to Linux ? it's
    the smaller party in a (usually friendly) rivalry, but the average quality
    of its developers is generally conceded to be rather higher than in the
    larger community it competes with. There's a Python resource page at http:/
    /www.python.org. See also Guido, BDFL.

    Q


The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Python

   1.  A simple, high-level interpreted language
   invented by Guido van Rossum  in 1991.  Python
   combines ideas from ABC, C, Modula-3 and Icon.  It
   bridges the gap between C and shell programming, making it
   suitable for rapid prototyping or as an extension language
   for C applications.  It is object-oriented and supports
   packages, modules, classes, user-defined exceptions, a
   good C interface, dynamic loading of C modules and has no
   arbitrary restrictions.

   Python is available for many platforms, including Unix,
   Windows, DOS, OS/2, Macintosh and Amoeba.

   (http://python.org/).

   Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.lang.python.

   (2007-02-21)

   2.  A compiler for CMU Common LISP.  Python is
   more sophisticated than other Common Lisp compilers.  It
   produces better code and is easier to use.  The programming
   environment based on the Hemlock editor is better integrated
   than GNU Emacs based environments.

   (1997-02-27)