pythonesque

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1. Resembling or characteristic of a python (snake).

   Two fire signs, talented Aries and intelligent snake, combine to make a more powerful, pythonesque snake.

   1999 [1996], Bridget Tanguay, Collins Gem: Chinese Astrology, Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 139

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   The Indians of the Amazon consider the Mai d’agoa, a pythonesque snake, to be the guardian of the Wild Lake of the Amazon.

   1997, Grace Hallworth, Mermaids and Monsters: Stories from the Sea, London: Mammoth, →ISBN, page 3

   I saw my middle-aged brother stuffing a garter snake through a tiny hole in the screen, the snake inflating, pythonesque.

   2021, Anne M, Smith-Nochasak, A Canoer of Shorelines, Victoria, BC: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 3

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1. Farcically surreal or absurd.

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1. informalcomputingTypical of, or suited to, the Python programming language.

   The module works by wrapping the C-extended Tkinter module into Pythonesque classes.

   2001, Andy Duncan, Sean Hull, Oracle and Open Source: Tools and Applications

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   If you want to cut out a third line, you can rewrite the above with a lambda function, which turns four lines into one (how very Pythonesque).

   2003, Richard Hightower, Python Programming with the Java Class Libraries