diff -ur -x '*.pyc' -x '*.pyo' -x '.*.swp' /c/temp/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py /c/DevTools/Python22/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py
--- /c/temp/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py	Wed Oct 30 00:00:34 2002
+++ /c/DevTools/Python22/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_wininst.py	Thu Jun 19 13:19:20 2003
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
                     ('no-target-optimize', 'o',
                      "do not compile .py to .pyo (optimized)"
                      "on the target system"),
+                    ('remove-source', None,
+                     "don't include original .py source files"
+                     "(remove from distribution)"),
                     ('dist-dir=', 'd',
                      "directory to put final built distributions in"),
                     ('bitmap=', 'b',
@@ -46,6 +49,7 @@
         self.keep_temp = 0
         self.no_target_compile = 0
         self.no_target_optimize = 0
+        self.remove_source = 0
         self.target_version = None
         self.dist_dir = None
         self.bitmap = None
@@ -87,9 +91,10 @@
         install.warn_dir = 0
 
         install_lib = self.reinitialize_command('install_lib')
-        # we do not want to include pyc or pyo files
-        install_lib.compile = 0
+        # we DO want to include .pyc files, not .pyo files, not .py files
+        install_lib.compile = 1
         install_lib.optimize = 0
+        install_lib.remove_source = 1
 
         # Use a custom scheme for the zip-file, because we have to decide
         # at installation time which scheme to use.
@@ -159,6 +164,7 @@
         lines.append("info=%s" % repr(info)[1:-1])
         lines.append("target_compile=%d" % (not self.no_target_compile))
         lines.append("target_optimize=%d" % (not self.no_target_optimize))
+        lines.append("remove_source=%d" % (self.remove_source))
         if self.target_version:
             lines.append("target_version=%s" % self.target_version)
 
diff -ur -x '*.pyc' -x '*.pyo' -x '.*.swp' /c/temp/distutils/command/install_lib.py /c/DevTools/Python22/Lib/distutils/command/install_lib.py
--- /c/temp/distutils/command/install_lib.py	Wed Oct 30 00:00:34 2002
+++ /c/DevTools/Python22/Lib/distutils/command/install_lib.py	Thu Jun 19 13:19:20 2003
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
         ('optimize=', 'O',
          "also compile with optimization: -O1 for \"python -O\", "
          "-O2 for \"python -OO\", and -O0 to disable [default: -O0]"),
+        ('remove-source', None, "don't include original .py source files "
+         "(remove from distributions)"),
         ('skip-build', None, "skip the build steps"),
         ]
 
@@ -50,6 +52,7 @@
         self.force = 0
         self.compile = None
         self.optimize = None
+        self.remove_source = 0
         self.skip_build = None
 
     def finalize_options (self):
@@ -92,6 +95,10 @@
         if outfiles is not None and self.distribution.has_pure_modules():
             self.byte_compile(outfiles)
 
+        # (Optionally) remove original .py files...
+        if outfiles is not None and self.distribution.has_pure_modules:
+            self.do_remove_source(outfiles)
+
     # run ()
 
 
@@ -134,6 +141,18 @@
                          prefix=install_root,
                          verbose=self.verbose, dry_run=self.dry_run)
 
+    def do_remove_source (self, files):
+        from distutils.util import remove_source
+
+        # Get the "--root" directory supplied to the "install" command,
+        # and use it as a prefix to strip off the purported filename
+        # encoded in bytecode files.  This is far from complete, but it
+        # should at least generate usable bytecode in RPM distributions.
+        install_root = self.get_finalized_command('install').root
+
+        if self.remove_source:
+            remove_source(files, verbose=self.verbose, dry_run=self.dry_run)
+        
 
     # -- Utility methods -----------------------------------------------
 
diff -ur -x '*.pyc' -x '*.pyo' -x '.*.swp' /c/temp/distutils/util.py /c/DevTools/Python22/Lib/distutils/util.py
--- /c/temp/distutils/util.py	Fri Mar 21 19:48:48 2003
+++ /c/DevTools/Python22/Lib/distutils/util.py	Thu Jun 19 13:19:20 2003
@@ -312,6 +312,31 @@
         raise ValueError, "invalid truth value %s" % `val`
 
 
+def remove_source (py_files, verbose=1, dry_run=0):
+    """Remove the original source for a collection of Python source files
+    (assuming they have been compiled to either .pyc or .pyo form).
+    'py_files' is a list of files to remove; any files that don't end in 
+    ".py" are silently skipped.
+
+    If 'verbose' is true, prints out a report of each file.  If 'dry_run'
+    is true, doesn't actually do anything that would affect the filesystem.
+
+    """
+    from os import remove
+
+    for file in py_files:
+        if file[-3:] != ".py":
+            # This lets us be lazy and not filter filenames in
+            # the "install_lib" command.
+            continue
+
+        if verbose:
+            print "removing source file %s" % (file)
+        if not dry_run:
+            remove(file)
+
+# remove_source ()
+
 def byte_compile (py_files,
                   optimize=0, force=0,
                   prefix=None, base_dir=None,
Only in /c/DevTools/Python22/Lib/distutils/: util.py.orig