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In setuptools, the bdist_egg command has an -exclude-source-files option that is missing in the bdist_rpm command.

So what’s the selfish sod to do if he wants to keep from distributing his source in an RPM ?

Including the install script below worked for me.

python setup.py bdist_rpm --install-script=install.sh

where install.sh is

python setup.py install --root=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT --record=INSTALLED_FILES
 
#goodbye py source
find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -name \*.py -exec rm {} \;
sed -i '/\.py$/d' INSTALLED_FILES