A few q's on python files.

[Larry Bates]

On windows there's py2exe which packs a python program
so that it can be distributed "like" and .exe, but Python
is a bytecode language (a la Java) so it is never actually
compiled into machine language.  The .pyc files are the
bytecode that is actually executed.  For C programmers
this takes some getting accustomed to.

Larry Bates

Joseph Quigley wrote:
> hiya,
> i'm new to python (by a week) but am learning fast (that's what I like
> about python--it's simplicity). I got disgusted with C and C++ (i was
> learning) probably because of a bad copy of Visual C++ 6.0 that gave me
> errors.
> 
> I noticed that IDLE doesn't have an option to allow you to convert a .py
> or pyc. file into an executable. Why? Am i wrong? Where can I find one
> (if I'm right)?
>