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The python code you write is compiled into python bytecode, which creates file with extension .pyc. If compiles, again question is, why not compiled language. Note that this isn't compilation in the traditional sense of the word. Typically, we’d say that compilation is taking a high-level language and converting it to machine code.
3. @Abdul: No, Python is not a software at all. It is a specification. There are multiple implementations of that specification, written in multiple languages. IronPython is written in C♯, Jython in Java, PyPy in RPython, Pynie in NQP, PIR, and Perl6, Pyston in C++, CPython in C. The statement "Python is written in C" doesn't make sense.
to run a C program, you first have to compile it (e.g., with gcc) and then run it; but once you compile the program, you have a standalone executable (e.g., a.out). With a Python program, you do not have to compile the program but to run the program you need to run it in the Python interpreter (e.g., > python hw0.py) In practice, at least for ...
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Feb 26, 2012 · 73. Python has a compiler! You just don't notice it because it runs automatically. You can tell it's there, though: look at the .pyc (or .pyo if you have the optimizer turned on) files that are generated for modules that you import. Also, it does not compile to the native machine's code.
Saying that they are "compiled in C" is a bit confusing statement. Let me rephrase it: CPython (the most widespread implementation of the Python interpreter, to which you are referring) is a C program, and those are C functions built in the interpreter, not Python code that the interpreter magically chooses to compile to C.
Aug 2, 2019 · In various books of python programming, it is mentioned that python language is interpreted. But that is half correct the python program is first compiled and then interpreted. The compilation part is hidden from the programmer thus, many programmers believe that it is an interpreted language. The compilation part is done first when we execute ...
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