[Lev1a]

I should probably have clarified that I wanted the "seamless" way of making the final executable. IIRC, I tried(really hard) and failed on getting some method of "freezing" for Python to work, which made me weary of the prospect of trying something like that in Python in the future(now past).

[lima]

pyinstaller works great. No issues whatsoever and I'm happily deploying Python 3.6 to machines as far back as RHEL 5.

Single binary to deploy, no dependencies except libc, life is great.