On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 20:02, Brad Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Torsten Mohr <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> not sure if this is possible, i'd like to distribute a pure python module as >> .pyc because there is some code in there that idon't want to spread yet. >> I plan to release the code as open source later, but it is not possible for >> now. >> >> I know that something like disassembling is possible but for i don't expect >> that somebody will take that effort. >> >> >> Is it possible to distribute a module.pyc using distutils? >> >> How would that setup script look like? >> > > I don't know about with distutils, but setuptools has an > --exclude-source-files option for creating an egg, used like this: > > python setup.py bdist_egg --exclude-source-files
That said, a decompiled Python files is so close to a source file that you won't prevent anyone from seeing your code anyway. -- Lennart Regebro: Python, Zope, Plone, Grok http://regebro.wordpress.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
