Greetings list,

While waiting to reply in full, just sharing this thread:

Shipping the Interpreter with Shiv

Barry Warsaw advocates PyOxidiser which ... requires rust

to be installed on whoever is deploying the app.

The accompanying article https://www.scylladb.com/2019/02/14/the-complex-path-for-a-simple-portable-python-interpreter-or-snakes-on-a-data-plane/

is an interesting read