alternative python compilers/vms? (like java)

[Cameron Laird]

In article <c68u44$1fql$1 at biggoron.nerim.net>,
Yermat  <loic at yermat.net1.nerim.net> wrote:
>Diez B. Roggisch a écrit :
>> 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 java is.
>> The bytecode might actually change between versions.
>> 
>
>There is also IronPython for .NET.
>
>By now, the python byte code is considered as "an implementation detail" 
>that is why it is not specified...
>It might disappear in the future... or not. ;-)
>
>So it seems that we cannot rely on it for whatever purpose !
>
>-- 
>Yermat
>

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might interest the original questioner.
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