redistributing Python runtime with an application

[Eric Cifreo]

I've seen posts and websites saying that the license allows for
redistribution of Python's core, but I was wondering if there was a smaller
package or subset (analogous to Java's runtime environment, or JRE) of the
distribution.  I suppose I could start copying files selectively to a clean
machine and figure it out that way but didn't want to reinvent the wheel if
someone has already done this, or at least doumented how one does it.
Anything out there already?

Thanks in advance,
Eric Cifreo
Austin, TX