I just want to say, working with python in an air gapped environment is fucking painful too.

I am not working with it directly but indirectly with ansible, and one of the playbooks (or "collections" in the latest iterations of ansible) has a stupid requirement to perform a pip install some random packages. Maybe there is a way to compile those packages offline and tell pip to use a tar ball. But I couldn't figure it out so I just commented out those specific steps. I even went so far as to grok the repo for any references to this package but couldn't find anything.

On the other hand, I do appreciate python's concise syntax and makes it easy to write a few powerful one liners.