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.

Overview It's not hard to write a Python package that can be installed into an interpreter or virtual environment with pip. This video shows a simple example of how to lay out a project's source ...

Simply create a new .py file in the same folder as your main Python code. Then “import” that file as you now know how to do, then access the functions from within that module.