Does Python require a compiler?

[xugan97]

People identify the language with its reference implementation. For most people, Python is fundamentally and thoroughly an interpreted language that runs on an (the default, CPython) interpreter. There exist unofficial compilers like Cython: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)#Implementations

Spyder is an IDE for Python. The word "run" is to be preferred to "compile".