> That is definitely a compiler and anyone with a CS degree would call it that if they were discussing its functionality because that's technically what it is.

None of these assertions is correct.

> (Referring specifically to the part which compiles Python to bytecode)

So referring specifically to something different than what I explicitly specified, it's called something else.

By that reasoning, a cow is a muscle and you are an acid.

> Your SQL database also has a compiler.

"Has a" and "is a" are rather different relationships.

> Compile doesn't only mean "create a machine code executable file".

You're the only person who made that assertion.