This is the code that creates a compressed file with arbitrary python code in it. The idea is that you paste some kind of python program in the raw_code variable assignment, then run the script which creates a .py file which is functional python code that opens another python shell and executes the compressed code stored within it.
import zlib
raw_code = """print 'hello world' """
code_prefix = """import zlib
import os
compressed_code = \"\"\"
"""
code_postfix = """
\"\"\"
os.system('python ' + zlib.decompress(compressed_code))
"""
full_code = code_prefix + zlib.compress(raw_code) + code_postfix
with open("/some/kind/of/path/compCode.py", "wb") as outfile:
outfile.write(full_code)
the file you get from this looks like this:
import zlib
import os
compressed_code = """
x��*(��+QP�H���W(�/�IQ�N�
"""
os.system('python ' + zlib.decompress(compressed_code))
The problem I'm running into is that trying to run the second file results in an error:
File "compCode.py", line 6
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\x9c' in file compressedPYCode.py on line 7,
but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
adding an 'r' before the compressed_code variable doesn't help. Is what I'm trying to do actually possible?
