How do you protect the source code of python applications?

[Jonathan Gardner]

husam penned with his keyboard:
> Is there a way to protect the source code of applications written with
> python?
> 

License it with the GPL. That will ensure that anyone who uses it has to 
make their software free as well. No one has successfully taken source code 
from a GPL project and put it in their own closed-source prorietary project.

If you transfer the copyright on your software to the FSF, they will defend 
the license in court for you for free as well (like they are doing for 
MySQL right now).

Jonathan

PS - Yes, this is half in jest. But you ask a question... =)