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. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list