Alan Gauld wrote:
> "nibudh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>
>> in perl this works:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/env perl
>> hello("World");
>>
>> sub hello {
>> print "Hello ". $_[0] . "\n";
>> }
>
>
> Perl executes differently to Python in that it does a compilation
> stage
> before executing. Therefore Perl knows about all the function
> definitions
> prior to executing any code. Python compiles modules which it imports
> but not scripts which it executes.
Python compiles all scripts to bytecode. For imported modules it saves
the compiled bytecode in a .pyc file, but not for directly-executed
scripts. However this has no bearing on the current thread; for both
imported modules and executed scripts, a function must be defined before
it can be called.
Kent
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