Re: disassemble, was(How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?)

2005-12-19 Thread Juergen Kareta
gene tani schrieb: http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/J.P.Giddy/python/decompiler/decompiler.html Thanks for the links. Regards, Jürgen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?

2005-12-14 Thread Ben Sizer
Tolga wrote: Let's suppose that I have written a Python program and, of course, want to show it to the world ;-) So, do I have to distrubute my source code? Or is there a way to hide my code? Suggested solutions to this in the past have including using Py2exe (or something like it) to create

Re: How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?

2005-12-14 Thread Juergen Kareta
Hi Steven, For many purposes, you can just distribute the .pyc compiled byte-code. That will discourage the casual user from reading the source code, but of course a serious programmer will be able to disassemble the .pyc code very easily. very easily ? I tried it with my own code a year

Re: How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?

2005-12-14 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:41:25 +0100, Juergen Kareta wrote: Hi Steven, For many purposes, you can just distribute the .pyc compiled byte-code. That will discourage the casual user from reading the source code, but of course a serious programmer will be able to disassemble the .pyc code

Re: disassemble, was(How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?)

2005-12-14 Thread Juergen Kareta
Hi Steven, What makes you think I'm a serious programmer? *wink* Ok, it's not a 'serious' investigation, but maybe it could be, that you (sometimes) quote something usefull ;-) Python's byte-code is not exactly as easy to understand as native Python, but it is still understandable. And I

Re: disassemble, was(How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?)

2005-12-14 Thread Paul Boddie
Juergen Kareta wrote: look at: http://www.crazy-compilers.com/decompyle/ it's only a online service. But if it works, it would be nice to have such a tool as standalone programm. And the next search result for decompyle on Google is... http://packages.debian.org/unstable/python/decompyle

Re: disassemble, was(How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?)

2005-12-14 Thread Juergen Kareta
Hi Paul, I had looked to the same link and downloaded the package. Maybe I'll give it a try at the christmas holidays - hope so ;-) Thanks Jürgen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: disassemble, was(How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?)

2005-12-14 Thread gene tani
Paul Boddie wrote: Juergen Kareta wrote: look at: http://www.crazy-compilers.com/decompyle/ it's only a online service. But if it works, it would be nice to have such a tool as standalone programm. And the next search result for decompyle on Google is...

How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?

2005-12-13 Thread Tolga
Let's suppose that I have written a Python program and, of course, want to show it to the world ;-) So, do I have to distrubute my source code? Or is there a way to hide my code? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?

2005-12-13 Thread Paul Rubin
Tolga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let's suppose that I have written a Python program and, of course, want to show it to the world ;-) So, do I have to distrubute my source code? Or is there a way to hide my code? You're not really showing it to the world, if you hide the source. --

Re: How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?

2005-12-13 Thread Tolga
Hmm... Can't find any word to say... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?

2005-12-13 Thread msmondal
Hi, You can make exe code. The process is much more elaborate than C/C++ compilation. Get the full information at http://www.py2exe.org/. also read the Programing FAQ at python.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How do (not) I distribute my Python progz?

2005-12-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Tolga wrote: Let's suppose that I have written a Python program and, of course, want to show it to the world ;-) So, do I have to distrubute my source code? Or is there a way to hide my code? Why? Is there a problem with your source code? Are you ashamed of it? Or trying to hide secret