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I thought that was what he meant. Is there any sharp distinction between "interpreting" and "evaluating" in python that I am unaware of? I've always used the words more or less interchangeably. But now that I think about it that might be a little naive since I have no idea how it works under the hood

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You could say that interpreting is first parsing and second executing/evaluating. The parser tokenizes and does a small amount of optimization such as ignoring unassigned values.

The parent wrote "compiled", which is certainly more incorrect than either "interpreted" or "evaluated."

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