Protecting Source Code

[Cameron Zemek]

> > How can I protect my python source code for a commerical application?
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> You can't, really. You can freeze the code into an executable.
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> This comes up over and over -- see previous discussions at, for instance,
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http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=protect+source&btnG=Google+Search&meta=group%3Dcomp.lang.python.*
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> Anthony
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Okay, but is python byte-code as safe as compiled Java code for instance?
Are there obfuscation tools for python available? More importantly how much
information can be gathered about the source code from python byte-code?