Guy Fawkes schrieb: > I don't want my program to > be open-source and so far all the Python programs I've seen included the > source code.
That's one of the great freedoms of Python and its licence: You are free to chose the licence for your product. No GPLish "you must be as free as we", more BSDish: "Do what you want, do not come crying" > Is it possible to make an executable with only bytecode? I use py2exe with its "new" (~1 year) single file feature with great success. I even succeeded in including a virtual static directory for a webserver within that file. To be exact, it is not really 1 file, but 2, as you often have to distribute msvcr71.dll with it - except for those computers having i.e. MS Office 11 installed, there it is allready present. Combining py2exe's single file distributable and upx compression I achieve fairly compact "just drop and use" applications without a real need for installation. I do not care about people decompiling (customers get the source code on request, if they are interested). It would be possible - but those who have the time and knowledge to dissect and decompile those upxed py2exed files and still make a profit would probably not see a reason to buy my software anyway :) Harald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
