In one incident, researchers have found malware code hidden inside a Python bytecode (PYC) file that can be directly executed as opposed to source code files that get interpreted by the Python ...

But over time, there’s been a greater push to make Python perform better, and those efforts are now paying off. For instance, the bytecode generated by CPython from a program’s source code can ...

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Whereas CPython compiles Python to intermediate bytecode that is then interpreted by a virtual machine, PyPy uses just-in-time (JIT) compilation to translate Python code into machine-native ...