&gt; The way I see it, pip and virtualenv are not practical for deployment or distribution. You shouldn&#x27;t have to download and install things during a production deployment. I even created a tool (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;objectified&#x2F;vdist" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;objectified&#x2F;vdist</a>) to mitigate this problem, but it will always be a hack when doing it this way.<p>Please excuse my newbness but doesn&#x27;t python wheel do most of this (besides compiling to a single package)?