Python comes with a collection of built-in data types that make common data-wrangling operations easy. Among them is the list, a simple but versatile collection type.

You can import the Python copy package and use its copy method to do so. Use y = copy.copy (x) to create a copy of list x and assign variable y to refer to it.

The most popular solution, and the most mature, is PyInstaller. PyInstaller doesn’t make the process of packaging a Python application totally painless, but it goes a long way.