Not for any useful everyday definition of the term. Yes I read the article. When we talk about compiled languages, we're almost always talking about the trans

Not for any useful everyday definition of the term. Yes I read the article. When we talk about compiled languages, we're almost always talking about the transformation of source code into executable machine code, and the performance increases that this brings. CPython having a preprocessing and compilation stage doesn't make it a compiled language any more than GCC/clang having constant folding optimizations make them interpreters.