Worth noting that the GraalPython implementation does support creating a single binary. https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/python/standalone-appli

Worth noting that the GraalPython implementation does support creating a single binary. https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/python/standalone-applications/ https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/python/stand... I'm not sure I'd try replacing shell scripts with natively compiled Python binaries. That said, I use a Kotlin Scripting based bash replacement in my own work that has many useful features for shell scripting and is generally much more pleasant. You have to "install" it in the sense of having it extracted somewhere, but it runs on Win/Mac/Linux and can be used without root etc.