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by sayanarijit 1432 days ago
That static executable will basically contain the whole python interpreter with a huge standard library. Maybe makes sense for a gui app, but I'd avoid installing a whole python interpreter for each of my little cli tools.

Don't forget the startup time overhead of first loading a whole interpreter into memory, then loading a python program into the interpreter.

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There are multiple options for these requirements as well. I understand that solutions are sometimes clumsy, but the end-user won't know the difference.