[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How can a proprietary software developer protect their Python code?
> People often ask me about obfuscating Python bytecode.  They don't want
> people to easily decompile their proprietary Python app.

Do they ask the same thing for Java or .NET apps ?-)

> I suppose another idea is to rewrite entire Python app in C if compiled
> C code
> is harder to decompile.  

Do you really think "native" code is harder to reverse-engineer than
Python's byte-code ?

> Any ideas?

I'm afraid that the only *proven* way to protect code from
reverse-engineering is to not distribute it *at all*.


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