title: How to strip source from distutils binary distributions?
body: <p>I want to create a bytecode-only distribution from distutils (no really, I do; I know what I'm doing). Using setuptools and the bdist_egg command, you can simply provide the --exclude-source parameter. Unfortunately the standard commands don't have such an option.</p>
  
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  <li>Is there an easy way to strip the source files just before the tar.gz, zip, rpm or deb is created.</li>
  <li>Is there a relatively clean per-command way to do this (eg just for tar.gz or zip).</li>
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