program deployment

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-01-05, king kikapu <aboudouvas at panafonet.gr> wrote:

> i am learning Python, just finished a book and i am starting
> to write programs. I just want to ask, is the "correct" way to
> deploy my programs to other computers, the .pyc files ??

That depends on the platform.  Under Linux, one usually just
provides the source.

Under Windows, I ususally use py2exe+inno-setup.

> I now that with the "-m compileall ." switch can compile a .py
> file into bytecodes. So i suppose that if Python has to run a
> .pyc file, it will load and execute it faster.

A little bit, yes.

> And if i have some "sensitive" data in my source, like
> passwords (and the source of cource!) they will be more secure
> in a compiled file.

Not really.

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