I just came across Vigil, an extension to python for serious software engineers, at https://github.com/munificent/vigil and thought everybody in this group would be interested (sorry if it has been announced before).
>From README: | Vigil is a very safe programming language, and an entry in the January | 2013 PLT Games competition. | | Many programming languages claim to take testing, contracts and safety | seriously, but only Vigil is truly vigilant about not allowing code | that fails to pass programmatic specifications. Enjoy. -- Alain. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list