There have been a bunch of attempts to produce compiled code for Python, but each have fallen short in different ways. However there is a serious bit of effort

There have been a bunch of attempts to produce compiled code for Python, but each have fallen short in different ways. However there is a serious bit of effort going into speeding up CPython now. I don’t think it’ll result in turning it into an optimising compiler that produces a binary executable as output or even an interpreter w/ JIT compiler, but I think there are still gains to be made without committing to either of those routes