An object-oriented script language to embed in any application
...The project is released under the zlib/libpng license. It has been in development for over 10 years and offers some powerful features.
Extensive information, documentation, articles and code examples can be found at the developer blog.
The "RISC-0" project is a collection of Python libraries and programs to support the RISC architecture described by Prof. Niklaus Wirth on his web page (http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/FPGA-relatedWork/index.html)