On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:42:24 -0800, Aaron Brady wrote: > On Nov 19, 7:58 pm, alex23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Nov 20, 10:14 am, Aaron Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > If you had a menu in a browser interface that had the items, say, >> > 'Stop' and 'Reload', what would you expect to happen if you clicked >> > on them? >> >> If you had a keyword called 'def', which defined functions, would you >> expect it to define said functions when it executed, or on each >> function call? > > At first, I would expect it to define them at compile-time. Then, when > I learned there was no such thing,
Of course there is compile-time. When did you think the .pyc files got created? The same thing happens in the interactive interpreter: the function is compiled to byte-code, and then the compiled function is executed by the VM. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
