[Tutor] Virtual Machine Terminology

[Alan Gauld]

> doesn't always look the same. You can't expect .pyc-files made under
one
> computer architecture to work on another computer architecture, it
will
> for instance look different on a 64 bit machine and on a 32 bit
machine.

Is this true? I though pyc files were portable between architectures.
For example I can take pyc files from my windows box and run them on
my Sun box. (Admittedly they are both still 32 bit but I thought even
that should be transparent)

Alan G.