Are you a Python developer and trying to understand how does Python Language works? This article is for you where you will learn each and every bit and piece of Python Language. Let’s dive in!

Python

Python is a high-level language, which is used in designing, deploying, and testing at lots of places. It is consistently ranked among today’s most popular programming languages. It is also dynamic and object-oriented language but also works on procedural styles as well, and runs on all major hardware platforms. Python is an interpreted language.

High Level v/s Low Level Languages

High-Level Language: High-level language is easier to understand than is it is human readable. It is either compiled or interpreted. It consumes way more memory and is slow in execution. It is portable. It requires a compiler or interpreter for a translation.

Low-Level Language: Low-level languages are machine-friendly that is machines can read the code but not humans. It consumes less memory and is fast to execute. It cannot be ported. It requires an assembler for translation.

Interpreted v/s Compiled Language

Compiled Language: Compiled language is first compiled and then expressed in the instruction of the target machine that is machine code. For example – C, C++, C# , COBOL

Interpreted Language: An interpreter is a computer program that directly executes instructions written in a programming or scripting language, without requiring them previously to have been compiled into a machine language program and these kinds of languages are known as interpreter languages. For example JavaScript, Perl, Python, BASIC

Python vs C++/C Language Compilation Process

C++ or C Language: These Languages need compilation that means human-readable code has to be translated into Machine-readable code. The Machine code is executed by the CPU. Below is the sequence in which code execution takes place.

1. Human Readable is compiled.
2. Compilation takes place.
3. Compiled code generates a executable file which is in a machine code format (Understood by Hardware).
4. Execuation file is executed by CPU

Python Language:

Python is a high-level language

Bytecode, also termed p-code, is a form of instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter

1. Python code is written in .py format such as test.py.
2. Python code is then compiled into .pyc or .pyo format which is a byte code not a machine code ( Not understood by Machine) using Python Interpreter.
3. Once your program has been compiled to byte code (or the byte code has been loaded from existing .pyc files), it is shipped off for execution to something generally known as the Python Virtual Machine
4. Byte code is converted into machine code using PVM ( Python Virtual Machine).
5. Once your program has been compiled to byte code (or the byte code has been loaded from existing .pyc files), it is shipped off for execution to something generally known as the Python Virtual Machine
6. Now byte code that is test.pyc is further converted into machine code using virtual machine such as (10101010100010101010)

• Finally Program is executed and output is displayed.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, you learnt how the python language works and interacts with Operating systems and Hardware. So, which application are you planning to build using Python?