[Python-Dev] native code compiler? (or, OCaml vs. Python)

Greetings, I enjoy programming in Python and find it very productive. However, one glaring weakness is the absence of a high-performance native code compiler. Are there any plans to develop this? Languages like OCaml have both a bytecode compiler and a native code compiler, so you can do rapid development with the interactive interpreter, and then compile down to native-code when you're finished to get C-like speed out of your application. So, it seems feasible that this could be done for Python as well, no? ===== Regards, Graham http://movies.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Movies - What's on at your local cinema?