It seems to have escaped from Daily Python URL, and other Pythonous news sources, that L. Peter Deutsch of the Ghostscript fame is working on a project to make Python programs run on a Smalltalk virtual machine. From CampSmalltalk's Wiki:

pycore is a project to run Python programs, unchanged, on Smalltalk. It currently runs a few tiny test programs on VisualWorks, 5-10x faster than the standard Python implementation. I'm going to get it to the point where it will run some small but realistic pre-existing Python program. I'd also love to get some help in making the code nicely transportable between VW and Squeak.

We now know to be careful predicting the future and hoping too much, but that sounds impressing to me.

[Spotted via Danny O'Brien's weblog.]