If you regularly use Python and its libraries from the terminal or in your shell scripts, adding Python to the system’s PATH ...

For one, there is no native mechanism for compiling a Python program into a standalone executable package. To be fair, the original use case for Python never called for standalone redistributables.

2) Python packages you want to install Python packages can be distributed as self-contained .whl files. Installing them is easy: pip install /path/to/file.whl. There are two important things to ...