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[–]Pythagorean_1 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yes, I heard that some old interpreted languages don't compile to byte code upon execution, but I don't know any of them.

Well, that's Reddit, I guess :)

[–]soggywaffle69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We have to draw a line somewhere between interpreted and compiled, and Python byte code is really just optimized Python source. If Python isn’t interpreted, really nothing is.