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Does anybody know of a compiler for python?

Jul 27th, 2000 03:37
unknown unknown, Shae Matijs Erisson

Jeremy Hylton has a source to bytecode compiler written in Python.
it's in the python/nondist/Compiler/ part of the CVS tree.
Greg Stein and Bill Tutt wrote a Python2C translator, which cuts at
least 10percent off of running time from what I've read. The C file
that's written is a Python module, and so won't let you make a pure
executable though.
It's at http://lima.mudlib.org/~rassilon/py2c/ (or was last I checked)
A python compiler is definitely possible, especially once you've checked
out the two projects mentioned above. I don't know how much it's needed
though.