Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!b13g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: CM Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Directly Executable Files in Python Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <1364b9ed-56c8-40ca-98f9-576900fb2caf@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.98.42.134 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1301419167 28471 127.0.0.1 (29 Mar 2011 17:19:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:19:27 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b13g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=74.98.42.134; posting-account=EfDvKgoAAADnzle_sTJkJHZS_giVO1x0 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12,gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.python:2184 > it has to be reproducing the byte code > interpreter in the code segment and the byte code in the data segment... > so that each .exe file created by said process is actually loading an > entire copy of at least the byte code interpreter with each program > "compiled" ... Yes, if you think of it as a handy packager and not a compiler, it makes sense. >=A0can't be very efficient?? How do you define efficient? All I know is that it works well. You click on the .exe and a moment later you are running the application despite not having Python installed on your computer. I'm grateful for its existence. Che