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I use Python in one of my products.
I compiled the source code using:
./configure --prefix=/home/myname/python_install
make
make install.
I looked inside python_install directory and noticed that many files (config, pyc, pyo), disclose information about my environment (i.e. strings with where i compiled it, directory, date, name, etc..)
I used ‘grep -i -r "myname"' *
How do I remove this metadata from all those files? I do not want to ship my product with this information.
This is probably not something you have to worry about. Is it a secret where you stored your files? If so, choose a different directory name to begin with. Otherwise, I doubt you’re going to be able to remove all trace of its location.
BTW, shipping a Python project means an interested party could basically read your Python source, so why worry about the locations of the files?