[Python-Dev] __file__

[Barry Warsaw]

On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

>There are several companies who currently ship bytecode only. (There was 
>someone on the IronPython mailing list only last week asking if 
>IronPython could support pyc files for this reason). For many 
>pointy-haired-bosses 'some' protection is enough and having Python not 
>support this (out of the box) would be a black mark against Python for them.

Would it not be better to ship a zip file with an obfuscated name?  Doesn't
that satisfy the use case nicely?

-Barry
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