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by masklinn
1196 days ago
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> That is definitely a compiler and anyone with a CS degree would call it that if they were discussing its functionality because that's technically what it is. None of these assertions is correct. > (Referring specifically to the part which compiles Python to bytecode) So referring specifically to something different than what I explicitly specified, it's called something else. By that reasoning, a cow is a muscle and you are an acid. > Your SQL database also has a compiler. "Has a" and "is a" are rather different relationships. > Compile doesn't only mean "create a machine code executable file". You're the only person who made that assertion. |
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You should fix the Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython
"CPython can be defined as both an interpreter and a compiler as it compiles Python code into bytecode before interpreting it."