Also, if a distribution releases a new security update for Python, then your

application will automatically start using that new version of Python.

[Producing an RPM file using the bdist_rpm command](https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/builtdist.html#creating-rpm-packages)

for use by distributions like Red Hat or SuSE is trivially easy.

However, creating and maintaining the different configurations required for

each distribution's format (e.g. .deb for Debian/Ubuntu, .rpm for Red

Hat/Fedora, etc) is a fair amount of work. If your code is an application that