On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Pierre-Alain Dorange <pdora...@pas-de-pub-merci.mac.com> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Yes and no. Syntax errors are detected when the script is compiled, so >> >> you can't do something like this: >> > >> > You're right, except that Python is never compiled, it was just checked >> > for syntax error before interpreting code. >> >> https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#compile >> >> It's compiled. > > Using this function, the code is "compiled". > I do not think this function is often used and most python project > simply use the interpreter (which do a small translation into byte-code > to be faster and check syntax error before running interpretation).
When you import, the same form of compilation is done. It always happens. Python does not execute your raw source code - it'd be too inefficient. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
