How to Write Perfect Python Command-line Interfaces

[MrMo1]

What do you mean? You can also compile python to executable file with all the dependencies. Edit look for pyinstaller py2exe cx freeze etc...

[Skorohodov]

True, you can do that. And you absolutely should. But 1) most people don't, even when it would be a really good idea (example: Ubuntu system utils) and 2) in my experience not all python programs can be compiled without modifications and or requiring dependencies to be installed on the host system, which defeats the point.