It depends. If it’s a simple script with no external dependencies, then it’s very easy to distribute
it really isn’t. Try distributing anything that needs openssl under the hood (which is part of Python’s stdlib). I spent years deploying Python and Ruby tools next to each other to other devs machines. Python is incredibly hard to distribute, even to the same OS across a company. I really think that most people that think “Python is easy” actually haven’t ever tried using other languages and seen how easy it is there. Even Java jars are easier to deploy than Python, both if you’re making an executable and if you’re just having the user build or run the code directly. The only thing that is even close in difficulty from all the top languages for deployment is C/C++. Everything else is vastly easier. Part of that comes from Python’s ridiculous tooling (15+ different tools at this point https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2023/01/15/how-to-improve-python-packaging/) and part of it comes from the fact that Python chooses to bundle old or out of date versions of libraries causing conflicts in newer systems, like OpenSSL.
it really isn’t. Try distributing anything that needs openssl under the hood (which is part of Python’s stdlib). I spent years deploying Python and Ruby tools next to each other to other devs machines. Python is incredibly hard to distribute, even to the same OS across a company. I really think that most people that think “Python is easy” actually haven’t ever tried using other languages and seen how easy it is there. Even Java jars are easier to deploy than Python, both if you’re making an executable and if you’re just having the user build or run the code directly. The only thing that is even close in difficulty from all the top languages for deployment is C/C++. Everything else is vastly easier. Part of that comes from Python’s ridiculous tooling (15+ different tools at this point https://chriswarrick.com/blog/2023/01/15/how-to-improve-python-packaging/) and part of it comes from the fact that Python chooses to bundle old or out of date versions of libraries causing conflicts in newer systems, like OpenSSL.