[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hehe...which part am I kidding about? The explanation was for > someone who thought python scripts were translated directly by the > processor.
Who might this have been? Surely not Tim. > I have already disassembled a pyc file as a binary file. Have you? How's it look? > Maybe I was using the term assembler too broadly. A binary > compiled from an assembler source would look similar in parts to > what I disassembled. What is this supposed to mean? > That's not the point, however. I'm trying to say that a processor > cannot read a Python script, and since the Python interpreter as > stored on disk is essentially an assembler file, It isn't; it's an executable. > any Python script must be sooner or later be converted to > assembler form in order to be read by its own interpreter. This "assembler form" is commonly referred to as "Python byte code". > Whatever is typed in a Python script must be converted to binary > code. That, however, is true, though blurred. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #120: we just switched to FDDI. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
