So it\'s a new millennium; Apple has waved their hand; it\'s now legal to include a Python interpreter in an iPhone (App Store) app.
How does one go about doing this
I also started such a project. It comes with its own simplified compile script so there is no need to mess around with autoconf to get your cross compiled static library. It is able to build a completely dependency-free static library of Python with some common modules. It should be easily extensible.
https://github.com/albertz/python-embedded/