interpreted

[Peter Hansen]

Ifman1 wrote:
> 
> Python is interpreted, right?  Is there anyway to make it compiled to
> machine code?  Will this make it faster?

Python is actually quite fast enough for most things.  Consider
that much of the real work is done by calls to C code that is
optimized and tuned already.  Maybe thinking of Python as a 
high level language which lets you quickly link diverse C 
libraries in more sophisticated ways than you can easily do
using C itself would be helpful for you.

-Peter