billiejoex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > interpretation and compilation at the same time, should be a great > advantage.
Python is compiled and needs a runtime environment. just like java does and like C needs the C standard library installed. I can see no differences except one is compiled to native code, the other is compiled to bytecode and JITted or interpreted and python is compiled to bytecode and interpreted or (with psyco) JITted. -- Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone Now Running MacOSX 10.4 Blog: http://vvolonghi.blogspot.com http://weever.berlios.de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list