andrew clarke wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 05:14:35PM +0200, Rob Sinclar wrote: > > >> Yep Python is an interpreted language. In other words every python app needs >> the python interpreter to be able to run. >> > > I'm not sure, but I don't think there's anything particular about the > language that says it should be interpreted. > Jython compiles Python classes to Java byte code, so I guess it is only interpreted because Java is. But there is still overhead to using Jython because the generated code implements its own types system, etc, using the Jython run-time. I wouldn't be surprised if IronPython does something similar. > As far as I know, programs built with IronPython don't require Python to > be installed - only the .NET (2.0?) Framework. > No IronPython runtime libraries? > http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython > > You can also build .exe files for Windows using py2exe. > > http://www.py2exe.org/ > py2exe just bundles all the needed files in a nice double-clickable package. It still runs the Python interpreter under the hood.
There are major technical difficulties to compiling Python code to something that doesn't need a run-time to make it work. ShedSkin and PyPy are two projects that compile a restricted subset of Python to native code. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
