How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?

[Steven D'Aprano]

Tolga wrote:

> Let's suppose that I have written a Python program and, of course, want
> to show it to the world ;-)
> 
> So, do I have to distrubute my source code? Or is there a way to hide
> my code?

Why? Is there a problem with your source code? Are you 
ashamed of it? Or trying to hide secret back-doors? Or 
do you think that your "Hello World" program is worth 
millions of dollars? *wink*

For many purposes, you can just distribute the .pyc 
compiled byte-code. That will discourage the casual 
user from reading the source code, but of course a 
serious programmer will be able to disassemble the .pyc 
code very easily.



-- 
Steven.