How to protect python code ?

Kyler Laird Kyler at news.Lairds.org
Tue Apr 8 13:23:59 EDT 2003


alloydflanagan at attbi.com (A. Lloyd Flanagan) writes:

>I'm going to make a suggestion you may not hear from anybody else in
>this group.  If hiding the code is important to you, don't use Python.
> Use C++ or something similiar.

I suggest Perl.  I moved to Python in part because I could
rarely read Perl code generated by someone else or even my
own code after it sat for a month or so.

I consider Perl a write-only language.

>What about coding the sensitive algorithms in C and calling them from
>python?  There are of course decompilers for C as well, but it's at
>least harder.

Someday Microsoft will save us from this sorry state with
Palladium.  Then we can all relax.

--kyler




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