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(Before marking as duplicate make sure you understand what this question is about)

I have an application that has a Python API, and I want to ship the Python interpreter which would enable users to run Python in interactive mode. The shipped Python will contain my package pre-installed.

The application is written in Java, but I did not want to couple the shipped Python and the application if possible - I wanted to have a self-contained binary that allows running Python in interactive mode and then having my application referencing it. Bottom line is I wanted a way to ship Python itself in a self-contained way, that is a good way to phrase it.

Just to further clarify - the purpose is not to ship a binary with a compiled Python script using something like pyinstaller or freezing tools, as I have found on many duplicate threads such as Shipping interpreter with Python application, Embed Python interpreter in a Python application, How to bundle a Python application including dependencies? and others. The user being able to use Python in interactive mode is a hard requirement.

So, again, the whole point here is being able to run the shipped Python in interactive mode with some pre-installed dependencies, in which case I think the solutions I have found so far (some of them referenced above) are not robust/self-contained enough. Let me know if I am missing something, which might be the case.

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    What language is your application written in? Commented Aug 10, 2021 at 20:04
  • Java, but I did not want to couple the solution to the application's language if possible, instead I wanted to have this binary that allows to run Python in interactive mode and reference it inside the application (Thanks for the question, I'll update my description on it) Commented Aug 10, 2021 at 20:11
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    If any of those options you link to for bundling applications include an interpreter executable somewhere in the distributed folder, then you could use that. I haven't tried, and it's from 2014 with no recent update, but bbfreeze does include an executable for the Python interpreter itself. Maybe pyinstaller does that too? Not clear from their docs but I would try it. py2exe does not as far as I can see. Commented Aug 10, 2021 at 20:46
  • Thanks, @Stuart, that's a good lead. I will try it and let you know. Commented Aug 10, 2021 at 21:01
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