Larry Bates schrieb: > Doug Stell wrote: >> I have 2 questions about py2exe or any similar utility. >> >> 1. Is it possible to create a single Windows executable that does not >> blow out to a folder full of files and can be called from scripts >> using command line arguments? >> >> 2. If the above can be done, it is possible to hide parts of the >> Python source code from users? These users are software developers, >> but we don't want them to see how the code does what it does. >> >> thanks, doug > > py2exe reduce the number of files you need to distribute down to 4: > > msvcr71.dll > w9xpopen.exe (Windows/98 support) > library.zip (all .pyo, .pyd, and .dll files) > applcation.exe
It can easily be reduced to 2 files by 'embedding' the libray.zip into the exe (use the zipfile=None option), and deleting the w9xpopen.exe if you don't need win98 support. > I does not however go to great lengths to "hide" the code from > someone with time/expertise that wants to get to your code > (but then just about anything can be disassembled). The compiled > .pyo files are just placed in library.zip. At least it doesn't > send your .py files along. Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
