However, if you write command line programs in Python ... you don’t want to write Python. The utility of this is easy to see, but I’d love to hear some concrete examples of where you think ...

For one, there is no native mechanism for compiling a Python program into a standalone executable package. To be fair, the original use case for Python never called for standalone redistributables.

While it is not common to need to call Windows functions within Python code, you may occasionally need to do so in order to make a program work correctly. If you need to, you can run the cmd.exe ...