I really like Python but ....

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    Bill> HOWEVER, I can't get too excited about it until a true compiler
    Bill> for Python comes along.

Check out Python2C.  Don't know the current status, but the mailing list is
very quiet, so it's almost certainly getting somewhat behind the current
Python state-of-the-art.  Python2C takes a module written in Python and
generates an equivalent module written in C, which you can compile.  

Also, freeze, in the distribution as Tools/freeze, warrants a look.

Neither one frees you completely from the need for an interpreter, though
freeze bundles the interpreter into the generated executable.

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