Deployment/distribution can be handled by bundling the app. For Python 2.x, there's PyInstaller[0], Py2App[1], Py2Exe[2] all of which do much the same thing: ma

Deployment/distribution can be handled by bundling the app. For Python 2.x, there's PyInstaller[0], Py2App[1], Py2Exe[2] all of which do much the same thing: make a single binary out of a python app and all its dependencies including the interpreter. Then you distribute that and don't worry about what the user has or hasn't got. [0]http://www.pyinstaller.org/ http://www.pyinstaller.org/ [1]https://pypi.python.org/pypi/py2app/ https://pypi.python.org/pypi/py2app/ [2]https://pypi.python.org/pypi/py2exe/0.6.9 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/py2exe/0.6.9