On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:41 AM, kunal <kunal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I am just curious , and do not intend to start any flame wars. > If a company wants to use python in a commercial project and does not want > the source code to go public (i.e closed source ). > How would one go about packaging the python project. > > Also as i see it, java too generates byte codes like python which is then > interpreted by the JVM . Still i see a lot of projects using java and > distribute > them as jar files. > > Is there something similar in the python world like a jar file ?
Or you could write the "secret sauce" part of the application in something like Cython and compile it into a SharedObject/DLL and use it as a library from your python code. This has the dual advantage of "obfuscating" your python code as binary and getting performance boost of a compiled language. Or if you are a java shop you can write Jython code and generate .jar/.war files too. Of course, if Java is indeed your poison, there are almost-as-sweet-as-python languages to make the pain go away - like Scala, while being almost as performant as Java on the JVM. IMO, If the company is paranoid about protecting "IP", avoid using scripting languages. +PG _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
