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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 08:42:03 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 00:37:35 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wibbled:
>On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 14:12:41 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 11:46:08 +0000 bart <bc@freeuk.com> wibbled:
>>>
>>>   def F():
>>>      ....
>>>   F = 42
>>>
>>>It is ridiculously and dangerously dynamic.
>> 
>> Python people would say thats a feature, not a bug.
>
>Consider that, in Python, functions and classes are themselves first-class 
>objects. Function and class definitions are not declarations, they are 
>special forms of assignment statement; while the function code is 
>generated at compile time, the actual creation of function and class 
>objects happens at runtime. If the function/class definition is executed 

Compilation and runtime are the same thing in Python arn't they? Can you
precompile code? I'm not an expert on the language to any extent though I
can write simple code in it.