Is it possible to compile Python natively (beyond pyc byte code)?

Question

I wonder if it is possible to create an executable module from a Python script. I need to have the most performance and the flexibility of Python script, without needing to run

Answer 1

• There's pyrex that compiles python like source to python extension modules
• rpython which allows you to compile python with some restrictions to various backends like C, LLVM, .Net etc.
• There's also shed-skin which translates python to C++, but I can't say if it's any good.
• PyPy implements a JIT compiler which attempts to optimize runtime by translating pieces of what's running at runtime to machine code, if you write for the PyPy interpreter that might be a feasible path.
• The same author that is working on JIT in PyPy wrote psyco previously which optimizes python in the CPython interpreter.