On windows there's py2exe which packs a python program so that it can be distributed "like" and .exe, but Python is a bytecode language (a la Java) so it is never actually compiled into machine language. The .pyc files are the bytecode that is actually executed. For C programmers this takes some getting accustomed to.
Larry Bates Joseph Quigley wrote: > hiya, > i'm new to python (by a week) but am learning fast (that's what I like > about python--it's simplicity). I got disgusted with C and C++ (i was > learning) probably because of a bad copy of Visual C++ 6.0 that gave me > errors. > > I noticed that IDLE doesn't have an option to allow you to convert a .py > or pyc. file into an executable. Why? Am i wrong? Where can I find one > (if I'm right)? > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
