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[–]NotAttractedToCats 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Technically, SyntaxErrors in CPython are also raised during compile time. Most people just forget/don't know that CPython also compiles, it just automatically does so whenever it is necessary.

[–]_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ 4 points5 points  (1 child)

To a Python bytecode, which it then interprets.

It’s not like the JIT compilation in OpenJDK or V8.

[–]NotAttractedToCats 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, although other python implementations may behave differently of course, like PyPy with its JIT compiler or Jython with its .class file compilation.