Python on Tandy Model 102?

[Kragen Sitaker]

"Skip Montanaro" <skip at pobox.com> writes:
> At first, I thought there must have been something magic going on w/ Perl:
> 
>     % ls -l /usr/bin/python
>     -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       606588 Aug 30 10:37 /usr/bin/python
>     % ls -l /usr/bin/perl5.6.1 
>     -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        10376 Sep  9 17:03 /usr/bin/perl5.6.1
> 
> then ldd showed me that Perl hides most of its mojo in a shared library:
> 
>     % ls -l /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/CORE/libperl.so
>     -r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       857720 Sep  9 17:03 /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux/CORE/libperl.so

Why doesn't Python do that?  It doesn't even build a shared library of
itself by default, let alone build a tiny executable that uses it.