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nuitka-setuptools
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Extension to setuptools to run your package through nuitka to produce compiled, faster, obfuscated binary modules.
Extension to setuptools to run your package through nuitka to produce compiled, faster, obfuscated binary modules.
Nuitka [http://nuitka.net/pages/overview.html] is a python compiler with full language support and CPython compatibility.
It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6.
You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.
This module provides some hooks to add to your python packages setup.py to automatically run some/all of your code
through nuitka when building a binary dist. This will typically be done with python setup.py bdist_wheel to
create a wheel for distribution.
With nuitka-setuptools this wheel can be devoid of pure python and only contain compiled code which is not only faster (quote: Nuitka is more than 2 times faster than CPython) but has a relatively high level of code security.
Basic Usage: setup.py::
import sys
from setuptools import setup
# Get the long description from the README file
with open(path.join(path.dirname(__file__), 'README.rst'), 'r') as f:
long_description = f.read()
packages = ['mod', 'pkg']
if any('bdist' in arg for arg in sys.argv):
from nuitka_setuptools import Nuitka, Compile
build_settings = dict(
# Compile module
cmdclass={'build_ext': Nuitka},
ext_modules=Compile(packages),
)
else:
build_settings = {}
setup(
name='nuitka_setuptools',
py_modules=['nuitka_setuptools'],
description='Extension to setuptools to run your package through nuitka to '
'produce compiled, faster, obfuscated binary modules.',
long_description=long_description,
author='Andrew Leech',
author_email='andrew@alelec.net',
url='https://gitlab.com/alelec/nuitka-setuptools',
use_scm_version=True,
include_package_data=True,
install_requires=['setuptools_scm'],
setup_requires=['setuptools_scm'],
cmdclass={'build_ext': Nuitka},
ext_modules=Compile(['nuitka_setuptools']),
**build_settings
)
FAQs
Extension to setuptools to run your package through nuitka to produce compiled, faster, obfuscated binary modules.
We found that nuitka-setuptools demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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