Martin P. Hellwig wrote: > Well the pyc, which I thought was the Python bytecode, is then > interpreted by the VM.
Python is often referred as byte-code interpreted language. Most modern languages are interpreted languages. The list [1] is rather long. Technically speaking even native code is interpreted by the micro code of most CPUs. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreted_language [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcode -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
