Donn Cave 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.
well, the bytecode isn't Python (the transformation isn't exactly straight- forward, as we've seen in other posts I've made today). and even if the bytecode engine used in CPython can be viewed as an inter- preter, does that make Python an interpreted language? what about Python code that uses a runtime that converts it to machine code? (e.g. Psycho, Iron- Python). is it still an interpreter if it generates machine code? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
