This gallery is part of the TechXchange: Embedded Python Programming.. What you’ll learn: Insight into compilers and interpreters for the Python programming language. Their functions and features.

Whereas compilers and interpreters generate many machine code close machine code Also called object-code, this is low-level code that represents how computer hardware and CPUs understand instructions.

Computers don't understand English or even programming languages. What's needed is translation software, and it comes in different forms: compilers, interpreters and bytecode.

Python is a classic example, with most of the replacements for its default interpreter written to speed up execution of the language. Among the latest and most intriguing is Nuika.

Writing a compiler seems like a much harder problem than an interpreter. That might be true today, but I would argue that it was not the case some 60 years ago. A few reasons why: ...

Python 3.14 now features changes to the interpreter to make Python applications run faster with no changes to your code. ... The compiler infrastructure explained Feb 21, 2025 6 mins Python Ep.211 ...