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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Why is it impossible to create a compiler than can compile Python to machinecode like C?
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:06:46 -0500
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The subject line is wrong. There are multiple compilers. Someone just 
listed some of them today in another post.

On 2/28/2013 3:50 PM, Matty Sarro wrote:
> Python is an interpreted language, not a compiled language.

A language is just a language. Implementations are implementations*. 
That aside, I pretty much agree with the rest of the response.

* For instance, C is usually compiled, but I once used a C interpreter 
on unix.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy