[hamandcheese]

I agree with you, if it ran pyc code directly I would be okay saying it "runs python".

However it doesn't seem like it does, the pyc still had to be further processed into machine code. So I also agree with the parent comment that this seems a bit misleading.

I could be convinced that that native code is sufficiently close to pyc that I don't feel misled. Would it be possible to write a boot loader which converts pyc to machine code at boot? If not, why not?