Quoth "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
| Alex Stapleton wrote
|
| > Except it is interpreted.
|
| except that it isn't.  Python source code is compiled to byte code, which
| is then executed by a virtual machine.  if the byte code for a module is up
| to date, the Python runtime doesn't even look at the source code.

Fair to say that byte code is interpreted?  Seems to require an
application we commonly call an interpreter.

        Donn Cave, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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