[Tutor] Sun says: Don't use Java, use Python!

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> > production code Python will already have compiled its modules to 
> > byte code and only the main module remains in ascii text.
> > 
> So doesn't this mean that if you are planning to distribute a Python
> script (as I am), that you should distribute it as a module? 

For production Python - and I stress I do very little production code 
in Python, I use it for prototyping prior to Java or C++ - I would 
write the main script like:

########################
import myrealmodule

if __name__ == "__main__": myrealmodule.run()
#########################


Then I distribute the compiled .pyc files for realmodule and any 
other modules that it uses. That way the genuinely interpreted code 
is minimised.

Alan G.