What are the limitations of distributing .pyc files?

Question

I\'ve started working on a commercial application in Python, and I\'m weighing my options for how to distribute the application.

Aside from the obvious (distribute s

Answer 1

You certainly could distribute the .pyc files only. As Cat mentioned, no it would not be compatible with different major version of Python. It might prevent some people from viewing the source code, but the .pyc files are very easy to decompile. Basically if you can compile it, you can decompile it.

You could use a binary packager like py2exe / py2app / freeze. I've never tried them but someone could still decompile them if they wanted to.