Web-based mode for bootstrapping a single version

[thijsmie]

Sometimes I find myself in a position where I want to deploy python to an environment outside system packaging, like pyenv does, but only needing a single python version. Effectively: I want to make a single python venv of a specific version, which you could imagine as part of a quick deploy&install script.

I imagine it something like this:

$ curl https://pyenv.run/build/3.9.2 | bash
$ source bin/activate

I inspected the python-build script and suspect it possible to make this work with no massive changes. Then the question becomes: is pyenv the place to implement this or should I create a separate tool that does this, building on the pyenv work and its generous licence to avoid re-implementing the build scripting?