Bjoern Schliessmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Trying to find assembly language stuff to look at is futile. >> Python doesn't get compiled into assembly language. > >So, how do processors execute Python scripts? :)
Is that a rhetorical question? Grant is quite correct; Python scripts (in the canonical CPython) are NOT compiled into assembly language. Scripts are compiled to an intermediate language. Processors execute Python scripts when the interpreter, written in a high-level language and compiled to assembly, interprets the intermediate language created by the Python "compiler". -- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
