Convert Python program to C/C++ code? [closed]

Question

is it possible to convert a Python program to C/C++?

I need to implement a couple of algorithms, and I'm not sure if the performance gap is big enough to justify all the pain I'd go through when doing it in C/C++ (which I'm not good at). I thought about writing one simple algorithm and benchmark it against such a converted solution. If that alone is significantly faster than the Python version, then I'll have no other choice than doing it in C/C++.

Answer 1

http://code.google.com/p/py2c/ looks like a possibility - they also mention on their site: Cython, Shedskin and RPython and confirm that they are converting Python code to pure C/C++ which is much faster than C/C++ riddled with Python API calls. Note: I haven’t tried it but I am going to..

Answer 2

Just came across this new tool in hacker news.

From their page - "Nuitka is a good replacement for the Python interpreter and compiles every construct that CPython 2.6, 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3 offer. It translates the Python into a C++ program that then uses "libpython" to execute in the same way as CPython does, in a very compatible way."