All good comments. I should have noted that my comment was not regarding Python (which I have little real-world use) and meant to apply more generally to utilit

All good comments. I should have noted that my comment was not regarding Python (which I have little real-world use) and meant to apply more generally to utility or in-house tooling should be as easy to install and use as possible. Being that it's not the main focus of development, it will bitrot so anything you can do to guard against it is worthwhile, and a single compiled Go binary is hard to beat in that regard.