Is Python suitable for a huge, enterprise size app?

[Joal Heagney]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Maurice LING wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 
> So you're saying that reverse engineering Java bytecode is illegal, 
> while doing the same with Python bytecode is not?  Or something like 
> that?  (And you're a lawyer, right?  Because if you're not, and you're 
> not citing your sources, why is it we should put any value in these 
> comments about what is (legally) true?)
> 
> -Peter

I think he's saying that if you distributed your python code as 
byte-compiled module.pyc or module.pyo form, rather than ascii-text 
module.py form, it would be harder for a reverse-engineer to say "But I 
was JUST looking at it!". Especially when the lawyers are involved.

Joal Heagney