Parrot for Python

[Paul Prescod]

John Roth wrote:
>...
> 
> I believe there were some people working on a Python
> port to Parrot a while ago, but they lost interest when
> the then current Parrot implementation was insufficient
> to handle what they wanted to do.
> 
> It's all a volunteer effort; it'll get done if enough
> people want to get together to get it done.

The developers of Parrot are implementing Python on Parrot themselves.

http://www.hole.fi/jajvirta/weblog/20040108T2001.html

As of a month ago:

"Just in case anyone's keeping track, here are a few things that are 
working:
	• 	Bytecode loading
	• 	 Objects
	• 	 Method calls
	• 	 Operator Overloading

  oh, yeah, and all that pesky math stuff, subroutines, and strings. 
They work too, though Unicode needs some help. And variables. We can do 
variables.

Still need some work on nested namespaces, actual bytecode translation, 
and object performance, but..."