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Uh, I lumped in Java with the compiled languages? And yeah, thats right there's like 80 million Python variants, some of which are compiled.

• joshuamorton 10y ago
  that was a typo. "not-interpreted" was my intended statement. And I'd love for you to show me a python variant that is compiled in the same way that C is compiled. The closest is nuitka, which...isn't.
  • tomc1985 10y ago
    cpython? I know the regular python-2.7 installer in debian does binary compilation, producing little *.pyc files for everything
    • jodrellblank 10y ago
      They are binary files, but they aren't "compiled binaries in the same way that C is compiled", they are intermediate Python byte-code files and they still need the CPython runtime to interpret them.
    • joshuamorton 10y ago
      As the other user mentioned, those are compiled in the same way java is compiled, but not in the same way that C is compiled. They still need an intermediate VM to run.