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I want to run python setup.py install (the setup script uses setuptools), and I want only the .pyc files to be included in the resulting egg or directory. all .py files must not be present. How can I do this ?
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Even in a vanilla version of Python 3.7. 6 (installed via pyenv ), the packages installed by default are both pip and setuptools .
pyc files are created by the Python interpreter when a . py file is imported. They contain the "compiled bytecode" of the imported module/program so that the "translation" from source code to bytecode (which only needs to be done once) can be skipped on subsequent imports if the . pyc is newer than the corresponding .
you generally don't need to worry about setuptools - either it isn't really needed, or the high-level installers will make sure you have a recent enough version installed; in this last case, as long as the operations they have to do are simple enough generally they won't fail.
py files contain the source code of a program. Whereas, . pyc file contains the bytecode of your program.
not with install, but a possibility is to run the following command
python setup.py bdist_egg --exclude-source-files
and install the resulting egg in dist with easy_install
easy_install dist/eggname.egg
Note that according to the manual install is nothing but a shortcut to easy_install use.
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