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by mixmastamyk 3776 days ago
That page dismisses py2exe, but I've used it successfully for over a decade. On unix it is as simple as:

  sudo pip install [package/repo]
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Except, you often need a full compiler toolchain for all the c dependencies. Then you need to make sure you have the required header files. Then you try and deploy to a small EC2 instance and run out of RAM building lxml or similar.
If your requirements are advanced, make packages on your dev box then deploy those:

https://nylas.com/blog/packaging-deploying-python

It's an interesting idea, thanks.