[Tutor] why doesn't python show error

[Alan Gauld]

On 28/11/11 10:31, surya k wrote:
> Thanks for that information. I understood what you are saying but in
> general when python doesn't give us executable files (whether its in
> Mac/ Linux/ Windows).. how could people develop programs ?.
> At some point of time people need to provide a file that runs without
> the help of a python interpreter..

As Stephen pointed out many programs run in interpreted environments
including almost every web client side program.

But even if you compile the code to a native exe it will usually still 
not be truly standalone. Any Windows program will rely on the existence 
of the standard Windows DLLs and libraries such as msvcrt. Unix 
programs expect the standard libc and other libraries to be there.

Unless you are in the extremely unusual position of writing software for 
an embedded device without any OS support then your code needs support 
files. What difference does it make whether they are in the form of 
shared libraries or an interpreter like .NET or  the Java JVM or the 
Python interpreter?

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Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
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