One of common question of python programming is how to do jar equivalent - i.e. run something like python myapp.zip . Below I describe a method producing a close result (hey python team - good place to enhance): unfortunately couple of bugs in python zip handling (e.g. python can't import module from zipfile with comments) make this task a little bit tricky.

1. Make sure you app is ready to work with zip bundle i.e. file is replaced to ZipFile when necessary.

2. Prepare the entry point:

   main.py
   def __main__():
        ....
   

3. create a bundle

   zip -r test.zip *.py *.pyc
   

4. create a launcher either shell or pure python one and place it somewhere.

#!/bin/sh
mod="$1"
shift
python -c "import sys; sys.path.insert(0,'${mod}'); import main;main.__main__()" $*

import sys
sys.path.insert(0,sys.argv[1])
import main
main.__main__()

enjoy