Python — escape from the terrarium: portability problems and their solutions

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The talk examines portability problems when distributing Python command-line tools and small SDK helper apps beyond the developer’s machine, where users may not have pip or the expected environment. It describes the practical issues of packaging dependencies and deployment and outlines solutions and strategies to reliably ship Python tooling to end users.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:10Why Python matters
3. 6:05Python portability problems
4. 8:07Solution 1: ZIP archives
5. 11:43Solution 2: DEB packages
6. 13:50Solution 3: Docker containers
7. 15:59Solution 4: PyInstaller
8. 18:45Solution 5: Nuitka compilation
9. 21:11How Nuitka works
10. 23:20Library linking issues
11. 28:56Linux platform tags
12. 31:44Building with correct tag
13. 35:00Using auditwheel
14. 36:43Manual fixes
15. 37:48Summary
16. 39:57Q&A

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