PyPy
Hey Hey,
I just came across this today and felt I should share it... PyPy allows the translation of python into other languages... Currently it supports C, .Net, LLVM and a mimimal setup of Javascript (to be worked on during the next Google Summer of Code).
I was able to download and grab pypy 0.9 using svn by running the command:
svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/release/0.9.x pypy-0.9.x
I used their example... it worked quite well I had a small functional .NET application that executed under mono but didn't work under .NET quite yet (Edit: This was due to user stupidity... I forgot to copy over the associated dll) ...
Check it out @ http://pypy.org/
HT