pyarmor | tool used to obfuscate python scripts | Encryption library

Putting the original file outside of the root (/) seems to have fixed the issue:

You can use the --recursive argument, which will recursively look in all the py files you have in a dir and obfuscate them.

pyarmor pack --clean -e "--onefile " -x " --recursive" entry.py

entry.py must be your entry script, which means the file you execute.

Python is an interpreted language, which means that the interpreter needs the source code at runtime in order to work. This means that even if you were able to encrypt the source code, the interpreter would still need to decrypt the source code to work at all so there is no 100% safe option. There are a few tactics you may want to look into though:

1. Obfuscation, which works by making the source code less readable
2. Compilation, which converts the source to machine code (Cython does this I think), which makes it harder to reverse-engineer

Could you make a decryption interpreter for Python? Probably. Would the performance be terrible? Also likely. Is it much easier to do one of the two above? Definitely. Or just switch to a different language which supports compilation and instruction-level obfuscation (like C/C++, Java, or C#).

So we will be using a few modules to -->

--> Convert our Python code to C source code and PYD files (PYD is the Python equivalent of DLL files)

--> Pack them into an exe

The modules we will be needing are -->

--> Cython

--> Pyinstaller

We will be using my project files (as an example), to demonstrate how to convert all the files to C source code and PYD files

The files in my project are -->

--> chat_screen.py

--> constants.py

--> main_app.py

--> rooms_list_screen.py

1. We will make another folder, and name it Distributable executable files (You can name it whatever u want)

2. We will be adding all the Python files in the folder but change the extension of all the files from py to pyx

3. Then make another file, known as setup.py and add the following code to it (Note the extension of that file should be py and not pyx)

The setup.py file:

I cannot give you the complete answer, only some pointer to help you, because I do not know the specifics of pyarmor.

I would check where myfile.py "thinks" you are. This can be done with a print and a file (I think you can easily find the absolute path of . (dot) that is the current dir where you are)

You can also print the absolute path of './files/urls.txt' to verify its existance. (see also the related question: how do I check wheather a file exists without exception)

If that does not point in the right direction, please comment or edit your question to provide more details.

I tried to replicate your issue using 64bit Amazon Linux 2 v3.1.0 running Python 3.7, but it all works for me. To test I had to remove the api.user_endpoints parts from your code as I don't have them, but no other changes were required.

Also there was no need to modify WSGIPath. So whatever is happening for you, its something not shown in your question.

I think I have a method based on what I read here: https://pyarmor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mode.html#restrict-mode

I use a proxy between the user code and the obfuscated code.

• User code may or may not be obfuscated
• The obfuscated code is obviously obfuscated!
• The proxy must not be obfuscated (for simplicity, I obfuscated everything then copied the original proxy.py over the obfuscated one)

So, now user code imports the proxy.py using importlib instead of the obfuscated.py.

And the proxy merely imports the obfuscated.py:

As it says in the documentation: https://pyarmor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/questions.html#xxx-codec-can-t-decode-byte-0xxx

You should put at the beginning of the script: # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-