Steve Holden wrote: > Evan Klitzke wrote: >> On 7/2/07, Cathy Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is python a compiler language or interpreted language. If it is >>> interpreter >>> , then why do we have to compile it? >> >> It's an interpreted language. It is compiled into bytecode (not >> machine code) the first time a script is run to speed up subsequent >> executions of a script. >> > While the flavor of this answer is correct, in strict point of fact > Python *doesn't* compile the scripts it executes, only the modules that > are imported.
I think you mean that CPython doesn't save the results of the compilation of a script. The scripts are compiled every time they are run, as you go on to say. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
