installing only .pyc (python compiled) with setuptools

Question

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 ?

Answer 1

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.