Python Makefiles... are they possible?

[Malcolm White]

I have written a piece of code that will be part of a larger repository of related programs. Within this repository, it is standard to issue a 'make' command to compile any desired program. Is it possible to create a Makefile to compile a simple Python program? Based on what I have come across so far, this is not (at least not typically) the way things are done with Python.

Thanks for any pointers in the right direction!