Python compilers?

[Peter Hansen]

Fuzzyman wrote:

> Funnily though, most people call Java a compiled language, but it only
> compiles to Java bytecode which runs on the virtual machine. Python
> precompiles to python bytecode which runs on the python virtual
> machine. So arguably it is *as* compiled as Java.....

Actually, there are compilers that produce native machine code from
Java for several CPUs available, and they are used at least in the
embedded world.

-Peter