How to execute a file with (---x--x--x) Permissions and I am not the owner?

[Scott J. Henson]

Gregory Piñero wrote:
> It's a python file and I tried running these two commands and get the
> following errors:
> Since this file has passwords in it, I wanted to make it execute-only.
>  Is that not possible?  I also set the owner to root if that matters.

What others have said is correct, the python interpreter
must be able to read the file to execute it.  As a way
around this, you might look into pyrex.  Its a C to python
layer that allows you to compile programs that look a lot
like python into C programs that are then further compiled
by gcc into machine code.  Depending on how complex your
script is you may be able directly run pyrex on it and get
out C that you can compile and have a mode of 111 on and
still execute.