king kikapu wrote: > > > Are they embarassed by their code? > > hehehe...no, just worried about stealing their ideas...
I believe that shipping just the bytecode is a pretty effective way to stop 99% of programmers from reading your code. Yes, in theory they could decompile it, but in practice, programmers are lazy. Look, I am so lazy that usually I don't read the source code, even if it is there in plain! Of course, if you only ship the bytecode and your code has bugs, the tracebacks will be less explicit and it will be more difficult for you to support your users. Also, you will stop the users that could fix the bug for you from doing so and you will rule out the possibility of getting help for free. Think about that. If it was that easy to steal non-trivial ideas from the source code, we will not complain all the time about about how difficult is to understand the code written by others. Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list