compiled or interpreted?

[Remco Gerlich]

Matt Frey <freydaddy at kricket.net> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Is Python a compiled language that can be run on a platform like c++, or is
> it interpreted like java, or is it in a class of its own?

It is like Java; it is first compiled to bytecode, then the bytecode
is interpreted. A lot of the libraries are compiled C.

(But the Python interpreter runs the compiler by itself, you don't have
to call the compiler by hand).

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Remco Gerlich