pocketpy/docs/features/deploy.md

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dot	Deploy Bytecodes	81

!!! The feature requires pocketpy version >= 2.1.7 !!!

You can deploy your pocketpy program as bytecode files, which slightly improves the loading speed of your program.

It also makes your users unable to get your source code directly, unless they do expensive reverse engineering.

To compile a .py file into a .pyc bytecode file, you need the command-line executable main, which can be simply built by running python cmake_build.py in the repository root.

Example

Once you have main executable, you can run the following command to compile input_file.py:

./main --compile input_file.py output_file.pyc

Alternatively, you can invoke the compileall.py script in the repository root. It compiles all .py files in the specified directory into .pyc files.

python compileall.py ./main input_path output_path