Solutions:related to the standard internpreter/virtual machine Edit

• pyc is a compiler for python. Python has its own compiler that produces bytecode (.pyc) from .py files. This compiler does exactly the same, the only difference is the resulting files are a smaller (but 100% compatible with the standard python interpreter).
• psyco - c just in time compiler that will make your python programs run faster with no change in the source code

Solutions:related to other platforms Edit

• IronPython - a new Python implementation targeting the .NET and Mono platforms
• jython - a python compiler for the java platform
• the python compiler to common lisp language
• Guile python compiler

Solutions:not realy a compiler Edit

• jpype an effort to allow python programs full access to java class libraries

External Edit

• Crazy compilers