On 3/20/14 1:47 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
Mark H Harris <harrismh...@gmail.com>:
If you wanted to you could run your python scripts from the .pyc file
alone. In other words, you may import as long as the .pyc file exists
and the source does not need to be there. Some folks use this (not
recommended) trick to hide or obfuscate their source from their
users).
I've seen it done, but at least in those Python 2 days the pyc format
changed between minor releases of Python, so Python itself had to be
shipped with the pyc files.
Python3 still makes no guarantees about the compatibility of bytecode
(and therefore .pyc files) across versions of Python, so if you want to
run from pure .pyc files, you have to be sure to use the same version of
Python that produced the files.
--Ned.
Marko
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