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Re: First Program with Python!

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On 10/02/2016 21:51, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 10/02/16 14:07, BartC wrote:
>> On 10/02/2016 00:32, Öö Tiib wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 16:30:19 UTC+2, Richard Heathfield  wrote:
>>>> On 09/02/16 14:11, anitagoyal571@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>   > Python is an interpreted language.
>>>>   > Interpreter is a program that converts the high-level program we
>>>>   > write into low-level program that the computer understands.
>>>>
>>>> That sounds more like a compiler to me.
>>>
>>> Good catch. AFAIK Python is simply a programming language without
>>> requirement that it *must* be interpreted. There even are some
>>> JIT-compiling Python 3 implementations like PyPy and Pyston.
>>>
>>
>> PyPy is such a complex implementation that probably no one knows for
>> sure exactly what it is.
>
> That's as maybe, but the point at issue is not whether Python is an
> interpreted language; the point at issue is the very definition of an
> interpreter. The OP said that an "Interpreter is a program that converts
> the high-level program we write into low-level program that the computer
> understands", and that's /not/ an interpreter -- it's a compiler.

That hasn't been put very well. And you're right that the quote would 
fit a 'compiler' better.

But interpreters do generally convert human-readable source code into a 
a more efficient internal form, if performance is of any interest. Then 
the quote isn't so far off.

-- 
Bartc

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First Program with Python! anitagoyal571@gmail.com - 2016-02-09 06:11 -0800
  Re: First Program with Python! Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-02-09 14:30 +0000
    Re: First Program with Python! Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-02-09 14:35 +0000
      Re: First Program with Python! Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-02-09 19:06 +0000
        Re: First Program with Python! Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-02-09 16:55 -0800
          Re: First Program with Python! Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-02-10 09:20 +0000
          Re: First Program with Python! Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-02-15 16:49 +0000
    Re: First Program with Python! Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-02-09 16:32 -0800
      Re: First Program with Python! BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-10 14:07 +0000
        Re: First Program with Python! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-02-10 16:24 +0100
          Re: First Program with Python! BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-10 16:55 +0000
            Re: First Program with Python! David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2016-02-11 00:18 +0100
              Re: First Program with Python! BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-11 00:07 +0000
          Re: First Program with Python! Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-02-15 16:58 +0000
        Re: First Program with Python! Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-02-10 21:51 +0000
          Re: First Program with Python! BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-11 00:15 +0000
  Re: First Program with Python! Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-02-15 16:46 +0000
    Re: First Program with Python! BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-15 17:31 +0000
      Re: First Program with Python! Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2016-02-15 20:16 +0000
        Re: First Program with Python! BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-02-15 22:45 +0000
          Re: First Program with Python! Kaz Kylheku <330-706-9395@kylheku.com> - 2016-02-16 03:40 +0000

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