Compiling Python

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Hello all

I am new to this forum, and to Python, please excuse the newbie question.

I have started reading the o'reilly book, "learning python" and find python
to be an amazing language so far. My first impression of it is a language that
is easier than basic to learn and use, and more powerful than many other
high level languages such as pascal.

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?

Cheers,

Mathew

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