Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't want to nit-pick all my way through the article, which > is very decent and is worth reading, but I will say one more thing: you > describe Python as "an expressive, interpreted language". Python is no > more interpreted than Java. Like Java, it is compiled into byte-code which > is then executed by a virtual machine. It has a separate compilation and > execution step.
The most-used desktop/server JVM, the Sun JVM, takes things one step further and compiles often-executed bytecode into native code. It can then execute native code. AFAIK, the most-used desktop/server Python VM doesn't do that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
