Is Python interpreted language?

Is Python interpreted or compiled? The simple answer here is interpreted; the right one is — it's both.

Python compiles your source code to bytecode (.pyc files). It does that implicitly, but it's still an essential phase of Python code execution. Java, for example, does the same but explicitly: you compile with javac and run with java.

Despite that, Python is usually called interpreted language while Java is called compiled language, which is, strictly speaking, not entirely correct.

Here is an article on the subject with more details and explanations.