[OT] Compilable Python-like language?

[Meno]

Ed Cogburn <edcogburn at hotpop.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.183.1079791608.742.python-list at python.org>...
> I'm just curious if such a beast exists out there.  I've googled around some 
> and read some programming language websites but I have yet to find a language 
> similar to Python that can be compiled to binary.  [...]

Well on windows platforms, Python programs can be compiled to a binary
form using py2exe (http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/py2exe/)