Shed Skin Alternatives

Shed Skin is described as 'experimental compiler, that can translate pure, but implicitly statically typed Python (2.4-2.6) programs into optimized C++. It can generate stand-alone programs or extension modules that can be imported and used in larger Python programs' and is an app in the Development category. There are five alternatives to Shed Skin for Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and Python. The best alternative is PyInstaller, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Shed Skin are py2exe (Free, Open Source), PyPy (Free, Open Source), Cython (Free, Open Source) and Numba (Free, Open Source).