Directly Executable Files in Python

[Paul Rudin]

Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan at case.edu> writes:


> If you can figure out a good way to compile a language like Python,
> you'll be very rich. Yes, it is running the interpreter and then
> running the bytecode on the interpreter. It's the same way Java and
> .NET work.

Not exactly AIUI. .NET bytecodes do actually get compiled to executable code
before being executed (unless things have changed recently - I haven't
really done anything significant with .NET in the last couple of years).