[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*. -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list