Windows installer from python source code without access to source code
Alan Gauld
learn2program at gmail.com
Fri Mar 31 12:31:40 EDT 2023
On 31/03/2023 13:00, Jim Schwartz wrote:
> I want a windows installer to install my application that's written in
> python, but I don't want the end user to have access to my source code.
Others have commented that at some level it will always be thre but on a
more pragmatic level tools like py2exe bundle up a Python app as an exe
file which might be all you need?
I'm sure if a user dug deep enough they could still find the source (or
something close) but to deter casual browsing it might be what you want.
Caveat: I've never used py2exe in anger and my experiements were before
Python3 so ive no idea what it does today! But a quick check suggests it
still exists and works with python3 code - last major release was in Nov
2022.
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