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|name= Python

|image= File:ASPython.jpg

|caption= An Armstrong Siddeley Python during [[National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics|NACA]] wind tunnel testing in 1949

}}{{Infobox Aircraft Engine

|type=[[Gas turbine]] [[turbopropTurboprop]]

|national origin= United Kingdom

|manufacturer= [[Armstrong Siddeley]]

|designer=

|first run= April {{avyear|1945}}

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|retired=

|status=

|major applications= [[Westland Wyvern]]

|number built =

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|developed from = [[Armstrong Siddeley ASX]]

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The '''Armstrong Siddeley Python''' was an early [[United Kingdom|British]] [[turboprop]] engine designed and built by the [[Armstrong Siddeley]] company in the mid-1940s. Its main use was in the [[Westland Wyvern]], a [[Aircraft carrier|carrier-based]]-based heavy fighter. The prototypes had used the [[Rolls-Royce Eagle (1944)|Rolls-Royce Eagle]] piston engine, but Pythons were used in production aircraft. In this application, the Python was rated at 4,110 [[equivalent shaft horsepower]] (eshp).

==Design and development==