How Does a Python Code Run?
How Does a Python Code Run? Have you ever wondered how human-readable .py files run on your computer? How does a computer understand instructions written with all those functions, lists, and other components? In this blog post — just to make things fun and more memorable — we’ll explore how Python code is run through an analogy of a chef trying to cook a dish from a recipe written in a foreign language. Before we dive in, it is important to note that unlike Python, a lot of programming languages like C++ and Java use compilers . Compilers convert the code written in their respective languages to machine-level binary , allowing any computer to run them. However, Python takes a different approach involving an interpreter, bytecode, and PVM (Python Virtual Machine). What is an Interpreter? An interpreter works kind of like a compiler, but instead of converting the .py code into binary, it translates it to something called bytecode , which is s...
