Python compiled?

[Valentino Volonghi aka Dialtone]

billiejoex <billiejoex at fastwebnet.it> wrote:

> interpretation and compilation at the same time, should be a great 
> advantage.

Python is compiled and needs a runtime environment.
just like java does and like C needs the C standard library installed.

I can see no differences except one is compiled to native code, the
other is compiled to bytecode and JITted or interpreted and python is
compiled to bytecode and interpreted or (with psyco) JITted.

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