Commercial Products in Python

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-10-21, Paulo J. Matos <pocmatos at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was just wondering, if you wish to commercialize an application
> developed in Python, what's the way to go?
> I guess the only way is to sell the source, right?
>
> This is because (and tell me if I am wrong):
> 1) You can't sell an executable because Python doesn't compile to native
> code (the usual approach, afaik);
> 2) You can't sell the bytecode, otherwise you get the client stuck with
> a specific python version (given bytecode might vary between versions)
> (the alternative);

You can bundle bytecode with a minimal Python snapshot into an
"application".  Under Windows, it'll be mostly .dll, .zip, and
.exe files, so the customer need not know it's Python at all
(though it's not hard for an experienced person to figure that
out).

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