Is Python "Compiled"?

[Steven Burr]

In article <95ug7b$qp0$1 at c3po.schlund.de>, hannah at schlund.de (Hannah
Schroeter) wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> In article <5Iig6.1295$D3.5361 at tor-nn1.netcom.ca>,
> Warren Postma <embed at geocities.com> wrote:
> 
> >[...]
> 
> >Various efforts to build a Compiler are in "research stages".  Dynamic
> >languages don't respond well to attempts to compile them.   .  Nevertheless,
> >some very smart people seem to be trying.
> 
> What about Lisp, which is very often compiled to native code?
> 
> Besides, JIT technology is also there, already for a long time
> (look at Smalltalk implementation techniques and see stuff implemented
> a decade ago which they just "discover" for Java).
> 
[snip]

According to Apple's documentation, Objective C, the programming language
for the Mac OSX Cocoa environment, also supports dynamic typing and
dynamic binding.

See http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/ObjectiveC/ObjC.pdf

Since I'm at best a programming diletante, this may be entirely beside the
point, and if so forgive me.  I thought it might be useful information for
those attempting to build a Python compiler.