How to compile python source files

Delivering python sources

Python sources are script files which are readable. Sometimes it's not necessary to expose the source code to the customers are we may want to intentionally protect our sources. In that cases we can compile the software and deliver it as a .pyc file

How to compile

bala@IND68FL4H2-L:~/reflash-tools/bin$ ls
genpack-flash.py  genpack-orch.py  genpack-usb.py  swpart.py

bala@IND68FL4H2-L:~/reflash-tools/bin$ python -m compileall .
Listing . ...
Compiling ./genpack-flash.py ...
Compiling ./genpack-orch.py ...
Compiling ./genpack-usb.py ...
Compiling ./swpart.py ...

bala@IND68FL4H2-L:~/reflash-tools/bin$ ls
genpack-flash.py  genpack-flash.pyc  genpack-orch.py  genpack-orch.pyc  genpack-usb.py  genpack-usb.pyc  swpart.py  swpart.pyc

References

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17590889/recompile-all-python-files-in-directory/17590925

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