This seems to be in the same spirit as Justine Tunney's SectorLISP. Very cool.

https://justine.lol/sectorlisp/

SectorLISP makes an important question in its implementation: how much can strip down Lisp before stops being Lisp. Same is not done for submitted interpreter. So, although SectorLISP goal is to be a Lisp-reduced-to-its-essentials implementation, the Python-1024 goal seems to be imitating Python in most minimal code possible.

Or sectorC

https://github.com/xorvoid/sectorc

Edit: I wonder if sectorC could compile python1024