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Re:500 Lines or Less – A Python Interpreter Written in Python by alehander42 on Thursday September 08, 2016 @03:07PM (#12456241)
It is an interpreter and that's absolutely correct. They could've even said "A vm in Python" because that is a VM, just without JIT etc. The compiler includes a parser usually, but interpreters in the purest sense of the word interpret the semantics of some structure corresponding to the code.
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Re:500 Lines or Less – A Python Interpreter Written in Python by the_af on Thursday September 08, 2016 @04:06PM (#12456801)
It's not an interpreter of the programming language Python, however. It's a VM for Python bytecode, which is not what most people understand as Python, right?
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Re:500 Lines or Less – A Python Interpreter Written in Python by astrobe_ on Thursday September 08, 2016 @06:30PM (#12457984)
It's as correct as writing a Kernel and call it an OS.

If you use that kind of deception too often, people won't take you seriously any more very quickly.

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