I'm guessing you know, but as a reminder to readers, Python does have compilation built in. It works similarly as Java - source code is compiled to a bytecode t

I'm guessing you know, but as a reminder to readers, Python does have compilation built in. It works similarly as Java - source code is compiled to a bytecode that is then run by a virtual machine. A difference is that for executing that bytecode, CPython virtual machine have JIT native code generation.