Newbie Win32 Questions

[Darrell]

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> Help please. I've got a couple of questions I
> haven't been able to find any answers to.
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> 1) Can you make a stand alone app? Meaning is
> there a way to compile and distribute one or more
> files without having to install Python on every
> machine you want to run the app on?
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Yes
http://starship.python.net/crew/gmcm/distribute.html

This is worth a look as well.
ftp://ftp.interet.com/pub/pylib.html

> 2) If not, how do protect source code from prying
> eyes?
>
Welcome to open source.
You could just send out your .pyc files although they aren't secure.

If you wanted to get tricky this might help.
http://www.lyra.org/greg/python/imputil.py
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--Darrell