I don't know if it'd work the same way, but I've had a lot of success with Twitter's Pex files. They package an entire Python project into an archive with autorun functionality. You distribute a Pex file and users run it just like a Python file and it'll build/install dependencies, etc. before running the main script in the package.

I used it to distribute dependencies to Yarn workers for PySpark applications and it worked flawlessly, even with crazy dependencies like tensorflow. I'm a really big fan of the project, it's well done.

https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex