How to hide python code using CMakeList

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Hey everyone,
I’m confused about python code obfuscation.

This matter was already discussed on the community

But I couldn’t see how to do it. Which CMakeList should I configure? And when this should be executed? I’m not familiar with any kind of module installation/build. I’m running Slicer on Ubuntu 20.04

Some interesting links were provided, such as this one and the following CMakeList code block:

function(replace_py_with_pyc ${SCRIPTED_MODULE_PYCACHE_DIR_PATH})
  if (EXISTS ${SCRIPTED_MODULE_PYCACHE_DIR_PATH}/__pycache__ AND IS_DIRECTORY ${SCRIPTED_MODULE_PYCACHE_DIR_PATH}/__pycache__)
    message("--- Attempting to copy .pyc files...")
    file(GLOB PYC_FILES ${SCRIPTED_MODULE_PYCACHE_DIR_PATH}/__pycache__/*.pyc)
    file(COPY ${PYC_FILES} DESTINATION ${SCRIPTED_MODULE_PYCACHE_DIR_PATH}/)

    message("--- Attempting to remove .py files...")
    file(GLOB PY_FILES ${SCRIPTED_MODULE_PYCACHE_DIR_PATH}/*.py)
    file(REMOVE ${PY_FILES})
  endif()

  file(GLOB SUBDIRS LIST_DIRECTORIES True ${SCRIPTED_MODULE_PYCACHE_DIR_PATH}/*)
  foreach(subdir ${SUBDIRS})
    replace_py_with_pyc(${subdir})
  endforeach()

  message("--- Done copying .pyc files.")
endfunction()

replace_py_with_pyc(${Slicer_INSTALL_QTSCRIPTEDMODULES_LIB_DIR})

Can anyone give me a documentation or a guide to help me generate *.pyc and remove *.py of my module? I tried to simply substitute the files, using *.pyc and *.cpython-39.pyc, but it didn’t worked.