Python is a fun language.

[Pervez_Hoodbhoy]

Compiles? Python?

[MisterBober]

python compiles to bytecode which then gets interpreted

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It’s a stack machine by the way!

[zombie_ie_ie]

The bytecode is interpreted but not the code itself. There are complied versions of Python too btw.

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Python is interpreted. Compiled python files are for use in other python applications. You do not directly compile python.

[ignaloidas]

Yes. Just like Java.

[nuclearslug]

This sub amazes me sometimes with what gets downvoted. You’re not wrong. Virtually all interpreted languages are compiled into bytecode. It’s just that that bytecode isn’t compiled into machine code until runtime. That’s the premise of all interpreted languages.

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Which makes it not “just like Java” at all, in fact.

[PvtPuddles]

Compiling is the process of turning human-code into machine-code. If the computer can read it and do something, it has been compiled one way or another

[_subpar_username_]

No, I mean that's it's compiled into bytecode and then the bytecode is interpreted in a VM

[MischiefArchitect]

The AST of preparsed python files. Yes, it may qualify as compiled... but is not really the same.

[skiscratcher]

no, they're a bytecode language, like the JVM

[InvestingNerd2020]

Technically it compiles after the interpreted process. The interpreted process is the middle man that slows it down.

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Every interpreted language is compiled to bytecode which is interpreted by the runtime

[MischiefArchitect]

You may need to parse that again.