[Pythonmac-SIG] Xcode 3.0 and Compiled Python Files?

[Christopher Barker]

Brian Berliner wrote:
> I'd like to have my built app include only .pyc (or .pyo) files and not 
> to include the .py source files.
> 
> 1. Is this possible?
> 2. How do I do it?

py2app puts all the *.pyc files you need into the application bundle. I
don't think it includes any *.py files except for your main file.

> 3. Is there a way to obfuscate the code so that it is not easy to 
> disassamble?

Not really -- python byte code is not supposed to be all that hard to
read, but it's not python source either -- someone would have to want to
copy your code pretty bad to bother.

-Chris



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