closed source

Alan James Salmoni alan_salmoni at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 22 22:59:59 EDT 2003


Milos Prudek <me at me.cz> wrote in message news:<bn60l5$tjubr$1 at ID-205031.news.uni-berlin.de>...
> Hi,
> 
> is it technically possible to distribute a python project as a closed 
> source, i.e. encrypted?
> 
> I believe that *.pyc files do not work without *.py sources... and they can 
> be easily decompiled.

Hi Milos,

I don't know if this is suitable for your project, but if (IIRC) you
use Jython, you can byte-compile the code which will run as a Java
application, but will be hard for anyone else to work out (it's not
impossible of course, it just takes a lot of work).

Alan James Salmoni
SalStat Statistics
http://salstat.sunsite.dk




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