Python compiler?

[Courageous]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:35:56 GMT, "news-server.columbus.rr.com"
<antediluvianistic at columbus.rr.com> wrote:

>Has everyone contemplated upon creating a python 'compiler',  which can
>produce a self-contained binary executable?  (for when speed is an absolute
>neccessity)  ..or does such a thing exist already?  I'd love to give game
>development in Photon a run,  and feel that it's simply not fast enough to
>perform some operations.

Yes and no. For what you are asking for, a python-to-native-machine-code
compiler, there is nothing and won't likely be anything for quite some time.
As it turns out, Python is dynamic enough that fully compiling it is a non-
trivial task surely worthy of many PhD dissertations.

There are tools, however, which will produce self-contained pthon .exes.
These essentially bundle the program source code (.py files) together
with the python interpreter and the various libraries into a single .exe.


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