py2exe questions

timmy timothy at open-networks.net
Sat Nov 4 18:12:32 EST 2006


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?
py2exe can most certainly do this.
> 
> 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
you can make a single exe in py2exe which would make it harder to 
disassemble, but there's no such thing in the software world that makes 
it impossible.




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