translating Python to Assembler

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

over at thepond.com wrote:

> hehe...which part am I kidding about? The explanation was for
> someone who thought python scripts were translated directly by the
> processor. 

Who might this have been? Surely not Tim.

> I have already disassembled a pyc file as a binary file. 

Have you? How's it look?

> Maybe I was using the term assembler too broadly. A binary
> compiled from an assembler source would look similar in parts to
> what I disassembled.

What is this supposed to mean?

> That's not the point, however. I'm trying to say that a processor
> cannot read a Python script, and since the Python interpreter as
> stored on disk is essentially an assembler file, 

It isn't; it's an executable.

> any Python script must be sooner or later be converted to
> assembler form in order to be read by its own interpreter.

This "assembler form" is commonly referred to as "Python byte code".

> Whatever is typed in a Python script must be converted to binary
> code. 

That, however, is true, though blurred.

Regards,


Björn

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