Terry Reedy wrote: >>> The the compiler is built into the VM as opposed to a separate tool >>> (like Java) is just an implementation issue.
That was me, not Paul - careful with the attributions. Otherwise Paul might think you were trying to ascribe some awful, inaccurate statement to him ;) > The presence of the exec statement and the eval function (which is > used by the input statement) requires the runtime presence of the > parser-compiler. Removing the latter disables the former features. > This is legitimite when not needed or when space is tight, but the > result is no longer a full implementation. True - but there's no reason that exec and eval couldn't hand off to a python compiler to do the work. Failure to distribute the compiler would mean then that exec and eval wouldn't work - but everything else would. It's similar to why some projects need the JDK rather than the JRE - they have to be able to compile things on the fly. Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
