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by Retr0id 819 days ago
Closed-source python exists, and it is frequently distributed in compiled binaries (especially in mediocre malware).

As a (supposedly) non-malicious example, the "Nightshade" watermarking tool is distributed as closed-source pre-compiled Python https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/downloads.html