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I don't believe Python had a compiler in 2006...

• paradox460 10d ago
  It had a runtime
• chubot 9d ago
  Python has always had a bytecode compiler that did some minor optimizations, since its inception in the 90's. The issue is that optimizations are very hard to do correctly in the compiler because Python is so dynamic. Any piece of code could suddenly redefine mytype.__add__() and so forth.
• Digit-Al 8d ago
  Python 2.0 was released in October 2000. Maybe you're thinking of Python 3.0.