Is Python suitable for a huge, enterprise size app?

[Ellinghaus, Lance]

That is why you can distribute only the .pyc files and not the .py
files. This would be like distributing the .class files and not giving
out the .java files.

I had this issue at a company in the late 1980's and why I submitted the
patches to make Python not require the .py files if the .pyc files
existed.
Now days, you can go one step further and zip up the .pyc files into a
single zip file and distribute that instead of individual .pyc files.

If you really want to go further, you can also modify the module loading
code and encrypt the .pyc files when they are generated from the .py
files. Your module loading code can then decrypt the .pyc files at load
time.

Lance Ellinghaus
I speak for myself and not for the company I work for.

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Subject: Re: Is Python suitable for a huge, enterprise size app?


> 
>> You can
>>see Python going down the sewer pipes, right on their faces.  Two, 
>>security.  "This python sounds pretty interesting.  Tell me about the 
>>security.  How can we prevent people from stealing our source code, 
>>which we just spent millions developing?  ...  Hmm, trust the 
>>developers out there not to peek?  Oh, sure, let's use it."
> 
> 
> Just like Java, which is so easy to reverse-engineer...
> 
> 
It makes big difference (legally) to if the codes are there and someone
sees it, to if the codes are locked in some packaged or zipped form and
someone reverse-engineer it. It is legally as different as if you drop
money on the ground and I pick it up, to pick-pocketing you and take the
money.

Nobody seems to be able to understand this simple logic.

Yes, Java class files can be reverse-engineered quite easily but the act
of doing that is criminal, unless performed under specified Council
Directives (in EU) or under any statutory law in specific countries. But
the act of looking at the codes if it is there is not criminal, just
like reading a book in bookstore. If anyone can program in binary today,
no codes will be safe with them anyway...

maurice
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