Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-21 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Such requests happen about once a month or so. If all the code-hiders were > to have gotten together to openly share their obfuscation ideas and code, I > suspect there would have been something pretty good by now. But in 10 > years of my watching, this

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread Banibrata Dutta
On 4/21/08, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If it's important to you to be able to obfuscate your code then you have > made an inapposite choice of language. Cutting through all the smoke (thanks to the slight flame we had), this seems to be the answer that 'shines thorough'... if th

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread ajaksu
On Apr 20, 3:31 pm, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > JB "My first post on c.l.py" Stern wrote: > > Curious Steve, how do you pay the rent and by what authority do you > > speak for "The Python world"? [snip] > I don't claim to speak *for* the > whole Python world, but as chairman of the Py

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread Terry Reedy
"Roy Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Even if this were worded in a less rude manner, I agree that Stula's response was rude. But it also strikes me as rude for people to whine about not getting free help hiding their code from the very people that they wan

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread sturlamolden
On Apr 20, 8:49 pm, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hiding your source code is not easy (perhaps impossible) in Python, for > reasons which have been covered at length on a regular basis in this forum. > If you only ship .pyc or .pyo files, there is still enough information > recoverable in

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread Roy Smith
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 20, 5:28 pm, JB Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Curious Steve, how do you pay the rent and by what authority do you > > speak for "The Python world"? Your opinion couldn't be more wrong for > > programmers

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread Steve Holden
JB "My first post on c.l.py" Stern wrote: > Banibrata Dutta wrote: >>> Wanted to check if there is any known, reliable, FOSS/Libre -- Obfurscator >>> for Python 2.5 code. > > No, sadly, there is not. There are a number of applications I would be > working on if it were possible to obfuscate pyc f

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread sturlamolden
On Apr 20, 5:28 pm, JB Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Curious Steve, how do you pay the rent and by what authority do you > speak for "The Python world"? Your opinion couldn't be more wrong for > programmers like myself who live by the code they write (as opposed to > its support). Are you

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread Terry Reedy
"Banibrata Dutta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Hmmm... but I'm aware of atleast 2 Obfuscators one commercial and one FOSS, | that seem to exist for Python. The commercial one is what I might try if I | don't find anything FOSS. The FOSS one seems to be a dead pr

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:32:36 -0300, Banibrata Dutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On 4/20/08, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> En Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:55:51 -0300, Banibrata Dutta < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: >> >> > Wanted to check if there is any known, reliable, FOSS/Li

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread JB Stern
Banibrata Dutta wrote: >>Wanted to check if there is any known, reliable, FOSS/Libre -- Obfurscator >> for Python 2.5 code. No, sadly, there is not. There are a number of applications I would be working on if it were possible to obfuscate pyc files. About the best you can do as of 2008/04 is use

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread Steve Holden
Banibrata Dutta wrote: > > > On 4/20/08, *Gabriel Genellina* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > En Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:55:51 -0300, Banibrata Dutta > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > escribió: > > > Wanted to check if there is any known, reli

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread Banibrata Dutta
On 4/20/08, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > En Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:55:51 -0300, Banibrata Dutta < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > Wanted to check if there is any known, reliable, FOSS/Libre -- > Obfurscator > > for Python 2.5 code. > > Why do you want to do that in the first p

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread David
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 6:55 AM, Banibrata Dutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Wanted to check if there is any known, reliable, FOSS/Libre -- Obfurscator > for Python 2.5 code. > What might work is to put all your code in python modules, generate .pyc, and then only distribute those. But yo

Re: Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-20 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:55:51 -0300, Banibrata Dutta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Wanted to check if there is any known, reliable, FOSS/Libre -- Obfurscator > for Python 2.5 code. Why do you want to do that in the first place? There is very few you can do to obfuscate Python code. You can't re

Any reliable obfurscator for Python 2.5

2008-04-19 Thread Banibrata Dutta
Hi, Wanted to check if there is any known, reliable, FOSS/Libre -- Obfurscator for Python 2.5 code. -- regards, Banibrata http://www.linkedin.com/in/bdutta -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list