Pythonic

Of or pertaining to, or resembling, the Python in Ancient Greek mythology, a serpent which lived at Delphi (regarded as the centre of the Earth) until it was killed by Apollo.

Adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to, or resembling, the Python in Ancient Greek mythology, a serpent which lived at Delphi (regarded as the centre of the Earth) until it was killed by Apollo.
  2. Enormous; also, monstrous.

    Synonyms: ample big cosmic bodacious broad commodious considerable expansive good-sized full generous giant grand great hefty hench immense jumbo larger than life largifical leviathan liberal long massive

  3. Using the idioms of the Python programming language.
    • The Pythonic style isn't regimented or enforced by the compiler. It has emerged over time through experience using the language and working with others. - 2015 February 12, Brett Slatkin, Effective Python,...
    • Pythonic code—when you first hear of it, you might think it is a programming paradigm, similar to object-oriented or functional programming. While some of it could be considered as such, it is actually more of a design...

    Synonyms: Pythonesque

    Antonyms: unpythonic

Origin

From Python + -ic.

Forms

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