Bingo! That is what I was thinking of. http://effbot.org/zone/squeeze.htm It turns out that it doesn't quite do what I want because the resulting script is tightly coupled to the version of Python used to build the package. It compiles the PYC byte-code into the package. It's neat and I may be able to use the ideas to do what I want.
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