How can I package a python script and modules into a single script?

[Noah]

This is interesting, but requires two separate files -- the ZIP file
and the boot script.
This is because zipimport can only import from file paths.
It can't import from a string or an IOString (as far as I can tell).
If only they would let you import from an already open file. Damn!

Squeeze is 99% of what I want except for the fact that it precompiles
the py files to bytecode
which locks you to the version of python you compiled on. Python byte
code is not guaranteed
to be portable across different versions of Python. Squeeze relies on
ihooks, which is
a standard module, but it is undocumented.

Anders Hammarquist has a Python Cookbook example that seems to do what
I want.
"Importing a Dynamically Generated Module". So far so good. I have to
check it out a bit more.
It relies on the "imp" standard library module.

With a bit of inspiration from "Squeeze" and help from the "imp" module
I might have what I want.

Yours,
Noah