[Tutor] Is python just a scripting language?

Deirdre Saoirse deirdre@deirdre.net
Mon, 1 Nov 1999 16:10:58 -0800 (PST)


On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, David Ascher wrote:

> > I could have misunderstood something, but I thought the .pyc files were
> > hardware platform (and perhaps OS) specific? 
> 
> Nope.  .pyc files are portable.  After all, they're just python virtual
> machine bytecodes...

That makes sense, but for some reason I thought differently. I guess
endianness isn't an issue either (one I personally face all the time <g>).

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