Python is an interpreted language, so there’s no need to compile your Python code before you run it using the Python interpreter. However, there are some cases where you may want to compile your Python code: To simplify the running of Python code on Windows, you can create a standalone executable using tools like py2exe or cx_freeze If you’re building Python from source for data science projects, you’ll need to compile the C libraries used by packages like NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, etc For more information on how to compile your Python code into a Windows executable, refer to our blog post How to Convert .py to .exe