Python Success Stories or Nightmares

[Mongryong]

Hey, let's try to be more productive on this list so we can help the
'subpar' programmers inspiring to superstar "engineers" like some people
on this list are.  Let's put those 1984 BASC Diploma to good use.

Let's hear people's success stories with Python and why they did the
switch.  Or, tell us about you're Python nightmare and why you're still
questionable about the language as more than a 'glue' language.  Give
suggestions on what you might have done differently in your projects? 
What works and doesn't work in Python.  Python is not the end-all-be-all
language folks.  So let's help people out about when it's good to use
Python and when it's not.

I for one would like to know, if anyone has written a 'real' compiler
for Python like "jcc" is for Java?  What are some of the difficulties in
writing such a compiler (type-checking and dynamic importing to
start...).

Thanks.