[Tutor] Writing a programming language in Python

David Hutto smokefloat at gmail.com
Tue Dec 21 11:44:18 CET 2010


On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> David Hutto, 21.12.2010 11:16:
>>
>> I understand it's .pyc so it's a compiled file and ready for usage
>> as 'anyother'(I might be wrong on this, but sure it's the same as
>> converting the original py file straight back to c).
>
> ".pyc" files have nothing to do with C. They are just compiled byte code,
> and not even portable to other Python runtimes (and sometimes not even
> between CPython versions).

I meant immediately available upon module calls on your own pc. Like
when you get a module that has them already compiled for your
architecture.


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