How to compile a Python script into a Unix executable and make it unreadable?

Question

I know I can make a Python script a unix executable by using #!/usr/bin/env python , but if I open the executable with any text editor, the code can be seen by everyone.

I want to compile a python script into a real unix executable, that means that it is compiled to Assembly and nobody can read its code, and decompiling is really hard in Assembly.

I have seen Cython, which compiles Python code to C code, but it makes a .so (shared object) file, and cannot be executed, only imported.

This could also be done if there was a tool that really generates C/C++ code, not a .so, so then, using any compiler such as gcc , compile the .c or .cpp file. If this existed, it could also replace any other python compiler such as py2app , py2exe or any like that.

Is there a way to do this?

Answer 1

Use PyInstaller or py2exe .

Read: https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html