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I think there are too many options, or not enough direction for busy people. Once you understand how it all works and pick / build the right tools it all works pretty well.

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I would agree for all but deployment. I know my way around python reasonably well, but pyinstaller and friends still make me have bad days pretty regularly.

Four Python projects, same customer, five different deployment systems. Docker, a Capistano look-a-like I coded in bash, git pull (their former standard), git format-patch plus scp, zip archives. Yes, python file.zip works if it contains the right files. Probably the latter is the easiest way, except it doesn't address the dependencies.

> except it doesn't address the dependencies

It does if you put them all in the zip :)

(and build for exactly the platform your customer is going to deploy on)

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