Question

I wrote a number crunching python code. The calculations involved can take hours. Is it possible somehow to compile it to binary?

Thanks

Answer 1

Shedskin might be worth a try.

From their front page blurb:

Shed Skin is an experimental compiler,
that can translate pure, but
implicitly statically typed Python
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 20
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
tutorial for details).

For a set of 44 non-trivial test
programs (at over 10,000 lines in
total (sloccount)), measurements show
a typical speedup of 2-40 times over
Psyco, and 2-220 times over CPython.
Because Shed Skin is still in an early
stage of development, however, many
other programs will not compile
out-of-the-box.