On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsdu...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 29.09.2014 16:53, Sturla Molden wrote: >> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>> I have a project that involves distributing Python code to users in an >>>> organisation. Users do not interact directly with the Python code; they >>>> only know this project as an Excel add-in. >>>> >>>> Now, internal audit takes exception in some cases if users are able to >>>> see the source code. >>> >>> The solution is to fix your internal audit. >> >> +1 > > You two have obviously never worked at a large corporation or you would > both realize how tremendously naive and unhelpful this "solution" is.
Unhelpful? Perhaps, perhaps not. I would, however, distinguish between the two parts of my original response as follows: 1) The *solution* is to fix the audit process. 2) But here's one of several *work-arounds*. It may well be impossible to truly solve the problem, and I'm aware of that. But sometimes you need to point out that a pyc-only distribution is still distributing something very VERY close to the source code, and therefore it's nigh useless to talk of not distributing Python source. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
