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Subject: Re: Obfuscating Python code
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On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 18:04:10 +1100, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following:


>> (if the “.pyc” file
>> is given the executable flag, you can even execute it as a standalone
>> command, but that might only work on my system).
>
>There may be ways to get it to work, but it doesn't work here:
>
>steve@runes:~$ chmod a+x test.pyc 
>steve@runes:~$ ./test.pyc 
>: command not found 

>./test.pyc: line 2: syntax error near unexpected token `('
>./test.pyc: line 2: `$?Vc
@s	dGHd
S(
s
>                                         Hello 
>World!N((((stest.py<module>
s'
>

	It likely works on Windows, which uses the file extension and PATHEXT
environment to determine "executability" (though I see I don't have .pyc on
mine). UNIX/Linux shells looking for a "shebang" line OTOH...
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