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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 09:56:09 -0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 21:22:19 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wibbled:
>On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 08:42:03 -0000 (UTC), Muttley wrote:
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>> Compilation and runtime are the same thing in Python arn't they?
>
>No, the code is actually compiled to bytecode, like Java and Perl do, and 
>UCSD Pascal did before all of them.

If that bytecode never sees a file (though apparently it can be written to
a pyc file), how is it any different to a normal interpreter simply creating
a parse tree or other internal representation of a program that it then runs
instead of running the text direct?