Pypy is not the only promisory project we have for seeing Python running like compiled languages.
Shed Skin is already a quite usable Python-to-C++ compiler which, in version 0.5.1, can actually compile many python scripts to fully optimized stand-alone executables. Next version will probably support the use of the standard python library and many, many exciting enhancements. The main difference between these two projects is that while PYPY aims to support 100% of python semantics including (all its dynamic features) on top of a virtual machine. It uses type inference for static compilation and just-in-time techniques. On the other hand, Shed Skin is purely a static compiler that translates python to c++ and then compiles to a stand alone executable. It will never support the most dynamic features of Python, but in most cases, it only requires to restrict our coding style a little bit to avoid these features and produce highly optimized code. http://shedskin.sf.net http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
