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It seem like the author does not differentiate between compiled (To machine code) and (To intermediate/byte code). Does that mean the pyc(114 bytes on my machine) generated by python for 'print "Hello world"' can be compared to the others?

It is still interesting though.

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don't forget you would have to add a shebang line to make it truly executable

Not really:

$ echo 'echo $0' > 'Hello, world!' $ chmod +x 'Hello, world!' $ 'Hello, world!' Hello, world! $ wc 'Hello, World!' 1 2 8 Hello, world!

8 bytes. I think that's probably as small as you can get.

Oh, brother, formatting.<p> <pre> $ echo 'echo $0' > 'Hello, world!' $ chmod +x 'Hello, world!' $ 'Hello, world!' Hello, world! $ wc 'Hello, World!' 1 2 8 Hello, world! </pre>

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