Yes - this is the reason I've switched to Go for writing command-line apps. I don't like Go as much as Python (Go is simpler, but not as easy), but being able to compile a self-contained executable is huge. It's also great to have access to GIL-free parallelism.
I don't expect Python to support either of those things any time soon.
I don't expect Python to support either of those things any time soon.