On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:00 AM, W. eWatson <wolftra...@invalid.com> wrote: > >>> I would think there are some small time and big time Python players who >>> sell >>> executable versions of their programs for profit? >> >> Yes. What's your point? > > That someone must know how to distribute them without having the source code > ripped off.
I've never seen a code obfuscation scheme I thought did the job the whole way, including compiling C, and Python bytecode is significantly easier to turn back into something resembling the original source (YMMV, I suppose). Also, if you don't know about common tools like distutils, the odds are pretty good that it isn't your code itself that is valuable to you- you're probably more interested in protecting your idea about what the code should do. At least for now, that's outside of the scope of technical solutions- discuss it with a lawyer, not a programmer. >> >>> disutils. Sounds familiar. I'm pretty sure I was using Py2Exe, and >>> disutils >>> might have been part of it. >> >> distutils. >> >> http://docs.python.org/library/distutils.html > > I don't see ;how distutils is going to solve this problem. Are you > suggesting the program should be packaged? Why? I can just send it to him as > py code. distutils looks like it's for library modules, e.g., functions like > math. ...no. Distutils is handy because you could just bundle your dependencies and hand them an easy-to-install package, which would be a quick way to get everybody on the same page. Of course, depending on the licenses those dependencies are under you might want to do even more talking to a lawyer than I've previously suggested before you go about trying to sell that bundle- I'm sure you wouldn't want to 'rip off' great free projects like python and numpy. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
