For one, there is no native mechanism for compiling a Python program into a standalone executable package. To be fair, the original use case for Python never called for standalone redistributables.

The Python programming language allows you to install packages that can be included in your programs to extend their functionality. When your program is executed, the code in the packages will be ...

Using Python’s index operator [] on a string with a -3 will grab the 3rd character from the end of the string, in this case '<built-in function oct>'[-3] will evaluate to 'c'.