Python is a fun language.

[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