20040619 CMcC: A late night on Tcl'ers Chat some wild ideas, here's one:
What if Python had a new additional parser which made it look like tcl?
I envisage it as follows:
1 a line of input is broken up into elements, as per the [Endekalog].
2 the 0th element of the resulting list is resolved as an object, or the name of an object
3 the resolved object is inspected for a .__tcl__ method which is then called with the entire line as arguments.
4 if there is no .__tcl__ method, the 1st element is treated as a method on the 0th object, and invoked on the object with the usual [Python] calling convention.
5 the default .__tcl__ method calls the object with args 1..n with the usual [Tcl] calling convention.There are assumed to be a bunch of objects inheriting from a TclCommand class, e.g. if foreach while set (etc etc)
Add uplevel to Python and voila - you have something which looks (very nearly) like Tcl, but is running over Python.
I really think this is feasible. It could give you very nearly script level compatibility in Python, I think.
Let the games begin :)