On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:36 PM, <norman.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a project that involves distributing Python code to users in an > organisation. Users do not interact directly with the Python code; they only > know this project as an Excel add-in. > > Now, internal audit takes exception in some cases if users are able to see > the source code.
The solution is to fix your internal audit. There's fundamentally no way to hide the source code, and it's going to add complexity. Demonstrate that it could take you a large number of man-hours and achieve little, and just declare that the source code IS what you want. Alternatively, you could do a source-level reformat that crunches everything down as much as possible, while still producing syntactically-identical source code. Remove all the comments, shorten local names to one letter, etc. That would result in something that, while still perfectly executable, won't be nearly as helpful. It wouldn't be nice readable source code, at least. Would your audit be satisfied with that? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
