Shed Skin is an
experimental compiler, that can translate pure, but
implicitly statically typed Python
(2.4-2.6) programs into optimized C++. It can generate stand-alone programs or
extension modules that can be imported and used in larger Python programs. Besides the
typing restriction, programs
cannot freely use the Python standard library (although about 25 common modules, such as random and re, are currently supported). Also, not all Python features, such as
nested functions and variable numbers of arguments, are supported (see the
documentation for details).