Donn Cave wrote: > for very long. If you give me a Python program, you have 3 choices: > cross your fingers and hope that I have the required Python > interpreter version, slip in a 25Mb Python interpreter install and > hope I won't notice, or come clean and tell me that your program > needs an interpreter and I should check to see that I have it.
Or use the correct term - a Python Virtual Machine. The the compiler is built into the VM as opposed to a separate tool (like Java) is just an implementation issue. There's nothing stopping you from compiling Python source offline and just distributing the bytecode (and this is commonly done) - although in that case you are usually tied to a specific PVM major version. Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
