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james11a
james11a

Reputation: 71

How to remove code from external release

I want to release a subset of my code for external use. Only certain functions or methods should be used (or even seen) by the external customer. Is there a way to do this in Python?

I thought about wrapping the code I want removed in an if __debug__: and then creating a .pyc file with py_compile or compileall and then recreate source code from the new byte-code using uncompyle2. The __debug__ simply creates an if False condition which gets stripped out by the "compiler". I couldn't figure out how to use those "compiler modules" with the -O option.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 178

Answers (1)

neil
neil

Reputation: 3635

I don't know if there are any standard tools for doing this, but it shouldn't be too difficult to mark the sections with appropriately coded remarks and then run all your files through a script that outputs a new set of files omitting the lines between those remarks.

Upvotes: 1

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