I asked a very relevant question on stackoverflow about this recently: "Writing a Python extension in Go" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12443203/writing-a-python...

Now technically you can compile a special python which can handle Go extensions, which is the wrapper mentioned in the second answer, but you can't distribute python modules that ask people to install "this special python" to run (which will reliably work with all their other installed code..)

I would like to see a "go init" function in a C API, that would let you interop the two whichever had the `main()`, since that would let you link with all the other c-implemented scripting languages (python, ruby, etc) which would mean that Go extension support could be added to the main cpython trunk as a compile-time option.