Switch from perl to python?

Carl Banks imbosol at vt.edu
Sat Dec 14 03:20:40 EST 2002


Roy Smith wrote:
> Andrew Lusk <alusk at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> Actually, if you embed the interpreter and call your python from C,
>> doesn't this keep your soruce code secret?
> 
> Well, you can certainly imbed a python interpreter in a C application, 
> but it's still got to have python code to interpret.  Where's it going 
> to get that from?

I don't think it's too hard to convince the embedded intepretter to
interpret pre-compiled byte code.  Because it's embedded, you don't
have to worry about binary inconsistency among versions.


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CARL BANKS



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