The most popular solution, and the most mature, is PyInstaller. PyInstaller doesn’t make the process of packaging a Python application totally painless, but it goes a long way.

It seems as though more and more of the simple command-line tools and small scripts that used to be bash or small c programs are slowly turning into python programs. Of course, we will just have to… ...

What we’ll create is a simple command-line application to store software licences. I’ll be demonstrating on Pop!_OS Linux, but this will work on any platform that supports Python.