Understanding Python Bytecode

Hello World! That’s our favorite phrase to print every time we start learning a new programming language, but here I try to explain how the interpreter understands the code. Python compiles the program to the bytecode which is an internal representation of python to the interpreter. Consider the following code which takes two function arguments that returns the multiplication of those two values, def multiplication(value1, value2): multiplied_value = value1 * value2 return multiplied_value The raw compiled byte code of the function gives,...

December 20, 2019 · 4 min · 761 words · Me