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by BooneJS 859 days ago
It's the output of Bazel's py_binary rule that includes a py_runtime to create a single hermetic executable file that can be deployed anywhere.
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While Bazel's python rules would do something similar, this doesn't look like it's the output of a Bazel build. The directory (bundledpythonunix) is not something Bazel's python rules generates, and the 3.11.7 python binary differs from what rules_python would include today.
Googles own firebase is 1/4 of the size and expects node installed
Might be leftovers from complaints during Python 2 to 3 shift.