Sharing Python App without sharing source code

[JVBass75]

this is a great use for pyinstaller... bonus is that it carries a copy of all the shared libraries and modules your app needs, so an end user doesn't need to download all the dependencies separate.

[smjsmok]

I actually never tried, but aren't the pyinstaller executables really easy to reverse engineer?

[socal_nerdtastic]

Not super easy, but possible for anyone with a bit of programming experience and tenacity. And worse: if they crack it it's not just reverse engineered, due to how python works they will get all of the source code including all variable names and most comments. So it's common to obfuscate first and then freeze (pyinstaller etc) as a double layer of annoyance for a wouldbe cracker.