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You can always roll out your favorite Python version and just use that. No need to use the latest unless you have security sensitive requirements.

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This is my problem. I’ve gotten to where the extra work to use a language that generates a binary is lower than the distribution problem with Python.

I’ve rewritten 3 CLIs because it’s too much of a pain for people to get them set up.

I still use it for myself to whip through a CSV, collate data from APIs. Sometimes a tiny API or web app (I really don’t like webdev) where I can deploy a container or pipeline deployment.

And I don’t have to use all the new bells and whistles. But so many do.

The type hinting system in particular is so much more painful to read (to me) than in a language with actual types.

You can generate a binary of your script (and all dependencies) with pyinstaller[1], and then your users don't have to worry about anything other than running the binary.

> PyInstaller bundles a Python application and all its dependencies into a single package. The user can run the packaged app without installing a Python interpreter or any modules. PyInstaller supports Python 3.7 and newer, and correctly bundles many major Python packages such as numpy, matplotlib, PyQt, wxPython, and others.

[1] https://pyinstaller.org/en/stable/

Oh that’s cool. I’d tried some of these years ago, but they were painful, didn’t support Python 3.x, etc.

I’ll have to check it out.

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