Directly Executable Files in Python

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:16 AM, harrismh777 <harrismh777 at charter.net> wrote:
> Chris Rebert wrote:
>>
>> Yes. py2exe is a tool which generates such Windows executables:
>> http://www.py2exe.org/
>
> Interesting... but it can't possibly be creating .exe files (compiling)... I
> don't buy it... it has to be reproducing the byte code interpreter in the
> code segment and the byte code in the data segment... so that each .exe file
> created by said process is actually loading an entire copy of at least the
> byte code interpreter with each program "compiled" ...  can't be very
> efficient??
>
> ... just a question?

If you can figure out a good way to compile a language like Python,
you'll be very rich. Yes, it is running the interpreter and then
running the bytecode on the interpreter. It's the same way Java and
.NET work.