[camtarn]

...what mirror-universe version of Python are you using?

One of my two main languages nowadays is Python, mostly deployed on single cloud instances, and it's still a case of writing a text file, sticking a #!/usr/bin/python at the top, and running it.

Obviously if you're doing something that pulls in a ton of dependencies and uses live ever-changing APIs, you're in a much more complicated situation, but Python has never stopped being really darn simple for the simple use cases.