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{{MonInfo|Python|Ekans|gender=Male|birthdate=Jan 20, yr 5 after [[PEFE]]|ball=Poké Ball|obtained=Fallarbor Town Hotel<br/>Egg gift from [[Fool]]|border_color=purple}}
{{MonInfo/Field|Version|<code>2.6</code>}}
{{MonInfo/Quote|"Screentime!"}}
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[[Python]] is [[Silent]]'s male {{bp|Ekans}} hatched from an egg given by [[Fool]]. He is a young and annoying Pokémon that expresses himself mostly by hisses, but also by <code>code_snippets</code>, much like [[Lua]]. Tends to wrap around the arm of whoever is holding him and demand for screentime. His Ability is '''Intimidate'''.

As what happened with [[Shahinne]], Python's egg was being held by Dintel when the Ekans hatched. While most of the other Pokémon were happy at the birth, Dintel resented Python for breaking the egg (which he had taken care of for weeks).

[[Lenore]] and [[Lua]] were the first Pokémon outside of Silent's party that [[Python]] met. Python and Lua are both hatchlings but have a somewhat rocky relationship that might have to be measured in [[wikipedia:Source lines of code|SLoC]] or in a benchmark.

[[Python]] is named after the programming language and based on the Ekans Silent's RL player captured in his Soul Silver run.

Being a Johtoan (or Hoennese?) Ekans, Python doesn't exactly get the same dialect as Sinn Ekans do, as shown when he fails in trying some diplomacy with wild Arbok in the [[Great Marsh]], thus getting himself and Silent captured by the tribe of wild Pokémon ([[Ichtacya]] later gets caught as well). He tried to parley with them on behalf of Silent, but things didn't go well for him, then he tried beating them at a card game (or at least an Ekans's version of that) but ended up losing as well. Finally he was able to convince some Arbok and Ekans of the colony to let themselves be moved to one of the PEFE habitats.

Silent kept [[Python]] out of harm's way during the [[Orre Arc]], in particular after what happened to Maekrite; however he was brought in for the final confrontation with Cipher's main body, where he and [[Dintel]] protected Silent from direct harm, and will remain with him during the postgame.

Python does not see much activity during the Kalos Arc, though he enjoys some screentime by being a HARD MODE miniboss in Hotel Richissime's practises. He also stays in the hotel in [[Renard]]'s room for a little while.

== Movepool ==

* {{typeicon|Poison}} Poison Sting.
* {{typeicon|Normal}} Leer, Wrap, Glare (learned offscreen).
* {{typeicon|Dark}} Bite.


'''Moves learnable''': Screech, Acid, Acid Spray, Mud Bomb, Haze, Coil (natural); Toxic, Mega Drain, Snore, Iron Tail, Sludge Wave, Swagger, Rock Tomb, Torment, Facade, Rest, Snatch, Sleep Talk, Natural Gift, Bind, Seed Bomb, Spite.

== Achievements ==

* Attempts (and fails) to parley with some wild Arbok in Sinnoh.
* Loses at a card game with some wild Ekans in Sinnoh.
* Was a HARD MODE miniboss in Hotel Richissime's [{{post|6980}} room tidying employment practices].


{{Silent's Team}}


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