[unethical_ban]

For shadow IT, anything that requires "installation" vs. being in the base system or being added as a file to a project is an inconvenience.

It's why I like using Bottle for small Python frontends: download the file and import.

(I'm ranting based on personal experiences with IT in the past. Yes in general virtualenv is the baseline)

[ActorNightly]

Compile python to executable is always an option.

[shakna]

If you're dealing with a managed system, chances are, compilers are banned. You'll have to be unsafe and work outside the constrained environment - potentially violating policies, contracts, regulations and laws.