Protect python source code that runs as API - python

The company has built a python API with Machine Learning modules and we want to install this API on our customers' local server.
Of course, we don't want them to read the code, but when I try to use pyinstaller or pyarmor the fastAPI server can't understand the code anymore.
Is there a way to obfuscate or compile the python code and make it work with a server like fastapi with the uvicorn command?

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How to deploy a Python Dash Application on an internal company server?

I have written a Python Dash Application and it works completely fine on my local computer. Now, I want to be able to deploy this application on a server within the corporate network. I do NOT want to deploy this on Heroku etc because the datasource is an internal API. How do I go about deploying this application on the server? It's a Linux based machine.
I found this post that says use the code below but not quite sure where to add this piece of code.
waitress-serve --host=0.0.0.0 --port=8080 appname:app.server
The code you are referring to, waitress-serve, is a command-line wrapper bound to the function waitress.serve provided by Waitress.
You run it in your terminal or from a shell script.
Waitress is a production-quality pure-Python WSGI server with very acceptable performance. It has no dependencies except ones which live in the Python standard library. It runs on CPython on Unix and Windows under Python 3.7+.
You can install it with pip install waitress.
#see waitress-serve documentation here.

How to make production build of flask project

I have developed a Flask project, that uses Waitress for production. I have followed this link
The thing is that I don't want to send all the project to the production server. I mean, as an example production in Java, I make .war of the project and run on the Tomcat server.
How can I do this in Python with Flask?
Python is an interpreted language, so there is no need to "build" your code. The reason Java includes a build step is that Java requires compilation. At high level, all you do is put your Python code on a server, installing any pip requirements, and telling Apache/Nginx where to find your code and how to run it.
If you have complex Javascript as part of your code, you may very well have a build step for the Javascript, such as using babel and webpack. But that should be entirely separate from getting the Python side to work.
If you want to protect your code for some reason, you can do that with a code obfuscation or by just deploying the pyc files, but all of these are complex techniques that you should only do if deploying to untrusted servers. See this article for some examples.
As an aside, Flask has a guide for how to configure it with mod_wsgi and Apache: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/deploying/mod_wsgi/

How to run a python script on client side without demanding permissions or requiring special installations?

I have a windows application built with progress openedge technology.
I have created a python script to generate an excel file but I need to deploy it to the client and im afraid of requiring special permissions on the client side if I compile it to .exe and attempt to run it.
Can someone suggest me a method to be able to integrate python with my project smoothly without breaking anything?
You could compile it on your own machine then try to run it while logged in as a guest user. If a guest account can run it without complaints it will probably run fine on the client machine.
This is crude because you still haven't tested all possible client platforms (unless you're talking about one specific client), also we don't know what's inside your script.
Use icacls to set appropriate permissions of your compiled script before shipping.
I'm not sure about the special permissions thing, but is it possible for you to turn your script into a CGI program and stick it on your webserver, or wrapper it with WebSpeed? Then your app could call a web service to get the .xls file.

How to deploy python flask application on another windows 10?

I have develop python flask application(REST API). Now I want to deploy this application on client system(Windows 10 Professional ). My client dont have any internet service.
Previously, I done in java that time I make a .war file and deployed in tomcat on client system. He was able to access REST API.
Now I want know any similar way to deploy python app on client system, on start system his able to access my REST API
use PyInstaller.
pip install pyinstaller
go to project dir
cd C:\Users\sandip\Desktop\MyPython
use
pyinstaller --onefile HelloFlask.py
If you just want to make your rest APIs accessible by other users in same network, you can simply do it without installing anything on client side by replacing the app.run() in your code to app.run(host= '0.0.0.0'). By default flask app runs on localhost, by changing it to latter causes it to run on your machines IP address, thus making it accessible by all the users under same network. You can read more on flask's documentation under the heading Externally Visible Server.
To deploy your app in production, you need a WSGI server, you can read about deployment of flask app here

Deploy Python webApp on AWS (without using Elastic Beanstalk)

I'm hosting a website on AWS. Its a web interface with a SQL database. The website will be used to:
1. View results of query from Database
2. Insert data into database
3. View the data and update it where needed.
The codes and connections works file when I run the application on localhost (Apache on my C drive). But we want to host it on AWS so that people around me can use it.
So, In AWS I uploaded the code on EC2 and installed apache on it, all the html links are working but the python file is simply displaying the code.
I'm guessing it has something to do with the shebang. Currently my code has the following shebang:
#!C:\Python27\python.exe
Can someone guide me if its the shebang or if there is something else i need to do.
I have installed boto, but not sure what to do next. The AWS website and most of the forums talk about using Elastic Beanstalk. I want to host a fully functioning Python webApp on AWS without using Elastic Beanstalk.
When apache displays code, that is a clear sign that Apache is not configured properly to execute python. You should look to see if mod_python is installed and configured correctly.
Also, #! is generally used with Linux not windows. If apache/mod_python is installed and configured correctly I can't imagine what code you'd have that would need #! since the .py extension would be enough.
IF your EC2 instance is indeed running Linux, and your code does indeed need #! try:
#!/bin/python
OR
#!/usr/local/bin/python
(Depends on where the python binary is, and those are the most common locations.)
If your EC2 instance is running Windows then "Unless you are using cygwin, windows has no shebang support"
Hi have you logged into your EC2 instance through the endpoint and then run your script, from the command line. I have some experience with EC2 running apache2 only my application was written in Java, having previously used python scripts I was able to run them by logging into my EC2 instance, you can do this from AWS management console. hope this helps you somewhat.

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