python obfuscate

Joshua Landau joshua at landau.ws
Fri Apr 11 17:48:01 EDT 2014


On 11 April 2014 10:17, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com> wrote:
> Joshua Landau <joshua at landau.ws> wrote:
>
>> However, if this really is your major blocker to using Python, I
>> suggest compiling with Cython.
>
> Cython restains all the code as text, e.g. to readable generate exceptions.
> Users can also still steal the extension modules and use them in their own
> code. In general, Cython is not useful as an obfuscation tool.

Ah, thanks for the info. I imagine it's perfectly easy to get around
that, though, through basic removal at the C phase. I doubt it's
worthwhile doing so, but deobfuscation will still be harder than a
.pyc.



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