^also, long shot, but graal also has a python frontend (via truffle). i think graal has its own idiosyncratic method of registering native FFIs, and that might be one alternative to the current

cffi

interface (not that anyone’s asking for one — but if we’re looking at eventually bundling the python interpreter, i think looking at truffle (the polyglot interpreted language frontend within the graal project) might be a good investigation to do at that time)