an evaluator that is written in the same language that it evaluates is said to be metacircular[1]. Note that this is not the case here because it's not a python

an evaluator that is written in the same language that it evaluates is said to be metacircular[1]. Note that this is not the case here because it's not a python interpreter but a cpython bytecode interpreter. It would have been metacircular if it were written in that bytecode. [1] https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/4_002e1.xhtml#g_t4_002e1 https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/4_002e1.xhtml#g_t4_00...