alternative python compilers/vms? (like java)

[Diez B. Roggisch]

project2501 wrote:

> 
> are there alternative compilers for python? or different VMs to run the
> bytecode?
> 
> similar to IBM java jvm and sun jvm, and other jvms? jikes, gcj?

there is jython, a very popular python 2.1 implementation on top of the java
vm.

Apart from that, AFAIX python is not specified in terms of a vm, as jva is.
The bytecode might actually change between versions.

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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch