Tim Chase wrote: > >> can we hide a python code ? > >> if i want to write a commercial software can i hide my source code from > >> users access ? > >> we can conver it to pyc but this file can decompiled ... so ...!! > > > > All of these make it hard enough to deter most people who will ever > > want to abuse your source code. Until you have *lots* of users this is > > probably enough. > > > > I never understand the knee-jerk reaction on this mailing list to > > answer people who ask this question by telling them they don't really > > want to do it... > > I think the reaction is based mostly in reality...an honest > answer: If you give people the program, then you also give them > the ability to reverse engineer it. It's as simple as that. > [snip..]
But until your number of users gets beyond quite a high level, it's just extremely likely that any of your individual users will have that sort of ability - or anyone else will have the motivation to do it. What you can do with Python is almost certainly *good enough* for most people who ask this question - and that fact never seems to be included in the 'reality' propogated by the knee jerk reactionists... :-p Fuzzyman http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list