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] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list