Compiling Python

[Jerzy Karczmarczuk]

TuxTrax wrote:

> My question is this; I realize that Python compiles to bytecode automatically
> as part of the interpreters tokenization run, but is there a way to permanently
> compile python code outputting to an executable binary?

Once upon a time Guido Van Rossum thought "this seems very difficult,
perhaps impossible".

He changed his mind a little bit now...

See:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/06/04/guido.html

and the references cited by The Master:

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/
http://homepages.ulb.ac.be/~arigo/psyco/

Don't forget also that Jython produces Java code. Not an
"executable binary" directly, but ...

You may also embed a Python kernel in your application, see
the tutorial:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/ext/embedding.html

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Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Caen, France