Is it possible to compile a program written in Python

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I am new to the Python programming language  I was wondering if it is possible to compile a program to written in Python   Is it possible to convert Python scripts to some lower level programming languages which then can be compiled to binary code   A developer who is considering to code in Python might want to keep the possibility open to be able to go for binary distribution later

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If you really want  you could always compile with Cython  This will generate C code  which you can then compile with any C compiler such as GCC

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python is an interpreted language  so you don t need to compile your scripts to make them run   The easiest way to get one running is to navigate to it s folder in a terminal and execute  python somefile py    This depends on you having python installed from the python site   You can compile python apps  but that is generally not something a new developer needs to do initially   If that is what you re looking for  take a peek at py2exe   This will take your python script and package it up as an executable file like any program on your windows-based computer   You can also compile individual files using python  as described in the  Compiling Python modules to byte code  section at this site

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You dont have to compile it  the first you use it  import  it is compiled by the CPython interpreter  But if you really want to compile there are several options   To compile to exe   py2exe cx Freeze py2app   Or 2 compile just a specific   py file  you can just use   import py compile py compile compile  yourpythoncode py

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python compile on the fly when you run it   Run a  py file by linux   python abc py

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Python  as a dynamic language  cannot be  compiled  into machine code statically  like C or COBOL can  You ll always need an interpreter to execute the code  which  by definition in the language  is a dynamic operation   You can  translate  source code in bytecode  which is just an intermediate process that the interpreter does to speed up the load of the code  It converts text files  with comments  blank spaces  words like  if    def    in   etc in binary code  but the operations behind are exactly the same  in Python  not in machine code or any other language  This is what it s stored in  pyc files and it s also portable between architectures   Probably what you need it s not  compile  the code  which it s not possible  but to  embed  an interpreter  in the right architecture  with the code to allow running the code without an external installation of the interpreter  To do that  you can use all those tools like py2exe or cx Freeze   Maybe I m being a little pedantic on this  -P

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I think Compiling Python Code would be a good place to start      Python source code is automatically   compiled into Python byte code by the   CPython interpreter  Compiled code is   usually stored in PYC  or PYO  files    and is regenerated when the source is   updated  or when otherwise necessary       To distribute a program to people who   already have Python installed  you can   ship either the PY files or the PYC   files  In recent versions  you can   also create a ZIP archive containing   PY or PYC files  and use a small      bootstrap script    to add that ZIP   archive to the path       To    compile    a Python program into an   executable  use a bundling tool  such   as Gordon McMillan   s installer    alternative download     cross-platform   Thomas Heller   s   py2exe  Windows   Anthony Tuininga   s   cx Freeze  cross-platform   or Bob   Ippolito   s py2app  Mac   These tools   puts your modules and data files in   some kind of archive file  and creates   an executable that automatically sets   things up so that modules are imported   from that archive  Some tools can   embed the archive in the executable   itself

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Avoiding redundancy I don t repeat my answer here again   Please refer to my answer here   note that answer only covers compiling to python bytecode

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