Embed Python interpreter in a Python application

Question

I'm looking for a way to ship the Python interpreter with my application (also written in Python), so that it doesn't need to have Python installed on the machine.

I searched Google and found a bunch of results about how to embed the Python interpreter in applications written in various languages, but nothing for applications written in Python itself... I don't need to "hide" my code or make a binary like cx_freeze does, I just don't want my users to have to install Python to use my app, that's all.

Answer 1

For distribution on Windows machines, look into py2exe

py2exe is a Python Distutils extension which converts Python scripts 
into executable Windows programs, able to run without requiring a 
Python installation

For the MacIntosh, there is py2app (but I'm not familiar with it)

And for both Windows and Linux, there's bbfreeze or also pyinstaller