yes i have found freeze too.

as you can tell from my name, i am a programmer (borland delphi is my favorite).

im just interested in learning python, never did it before.. so im just asking these things for future reference, and to see if its worth my time with python, or learn C++ (ive done c++ before, its just been years and on a different platform)

there isnt any particular application in mind.

My reading tells me that Python uses a virtual machine like Java does.. and it DOES compile its own tokenized instructions the way Java (and Assembly for that matter). So you CAN 'compile' it and if you just have the Python's virtual machine to run the tokenized code, you don't need the entire Python language installed.