As the Py virtual machine executes the byte code line by line so it is interpreted. Languages Like C are compiled Languages. For example:
For the following code we get this output:
<pre><code class="lang-python">print("Hello World")
print(a)
</code></pre>
Hello World
Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\PythonOm\<a target="_blank" href="http://pyTest.py">pyTest.py</a>", line 2, in print(a) ^ NameError: name 'a' is not defined
For a similar code in C "Hello World " will not even be printed we would get compile time error not run time error.
Resources
<a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/3HTKc-ZgZbg?si=m0Q4JPRymnkbv7Su">Hitesh Choudary</a>

As the Py virtual machine executes the byte code line by line so it is interpreted. Languages Like C are compiled Languages.  
For example:

For the following code we get this output:

```python
print("Hello World")
print(a)
```

Hello World

Traceback (most recent call last): File "c:\\PythonOm\\[pyTest.py](http://pyTest.py)", line 2, in print(a) ^ NameError: name 'a' is not defined

For a similar code in C "Hello World " will not even be printed we would get compile time error not run time error.

Resources

[Hitesh Choudary](https://youtu.be/3HTKc-ZgZbg?si=m0Q4JPRymnkbv7Su)

Python Interpreted or Compiled