We want to exclude the Python source code from the package we create. But after configuring setup.py, I failed excluding the py files. I have been using python setup.py bdist_wheel as command. Is there any way to exclude to source code from Python package? Basically we do not want to expose the source codes.
how to exclude source code from bdist_wheel python
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The wheel plugin for setuptools that handles bdist_wheel does not have the --exclude_source_files which is only supported by bdist_egg. The egg packages are however deprecated and not supported by pip for example. What you can do however:
pip3 install wheel
python3 setup.py bdist_egg --exclude-source-files
wheel convert dist/mypackage-1.0-py3.6.egg
The wheel utility takes a source-stripped egg and converts it into whl package.
This came up for us putting Python libs on an embedded system with very minimal available memory.
It can be achieved with:
./setup.py bdist_egg --exclude_source_files
Works for both distutils and setuptools.
Well, we also encountered this issue (around 2 years ago) and didn't find a sensible automation process for it. So I wrote my own.
You're welcomed to it: setup.py template
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