"Sophie Marston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Is it possible to create a closed source project in Python? Like in > C++ > or something, where they can't view your code?
Partially. It is usually possible to reverse engineer the code but it won''t look as pretty as the original nor will it necessarily have all the comments etc. But it will be readable. Of course you can reverse engineer C++ programs too but less successfully and usually with expensive tools. However closed source doesn't mean you don't distribute the source, it means you can't (legally) change the source. Most commercial mainframe programs are 'closed source' but they include a source code listing so that the operations teams can figfure out whats going wrong in the event of an abend (ABnormal END - mainframe speak for a crash!) So in a legal sense closde source is just as easy to distribute as open source. If what you want is hidden source then you need to distribute either the .pyc compiled files or use something like py2exe to convert to an executable bundle. You could also use Jython and compile to JVM code which is easily reverse engineered into Jaba, but not so easily into Python! HTH, _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
