Could Python be compiled to run on the V8 Engine?
Python is already compiled to bytecode and executed.  This is what the .pyc files are in CPython. Jython likewise compiles to Java bytecode (dynamically), and so does IronPython for .NET
Presumably Javascript is compiled to some kind of byte-code to run on the V8 Engine? Is Python a similar enough language that we can imagine Python being compiled to the same byte-code and run on the V8?
Any projects trying to do this?