[Distutils] Question about creating rpms using distutiils

[Bastian Kleineidam]

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Hi,

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:24:27PM +0530, Steve wrote:
>       BTW, Yes I am aware that distributing the pyc's are like
> distributing the source code ...but well, try and explain that to my
> PHB <sigh>
The simplest solution to this problem is a code obfuscation tool, which
is indeed quite effective and easy to use when the tool is not very buggy ;)
Pyobfuscate seems to be such a tool, though I have not tested it.

Python already has a zip file importer (look for zipimport.c in the
Python source).
So another solution is to write a custom module importer in C (which is
somewhat harder to decompile) that can read encrypted modules.

Regards,
  Bastian


PS: there was also a thread on comp.lang.python about this:
http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Python/comp.lang.python/2003-10/3659.html

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