Code obfuscation / decompilers?

[Andrew Markebo]

A thought.. in your case.. move some of the environment into the
pythin interpretator (c-code) and make the validation in there... sort of.. 

I have a application that fetches data through a c-module and also
some functionality is in there, and I make it check that it has a license.. 

mylicensedprogram.py
....................
import mymodule # c - module 

mymodule.initialize()  # checks license, sets up environment, 
                       # registers functions.. connects to the database

....................

Now if licensing fails (normal FlexLM used), it doesn't register some
funktions I need for this program, you can't access the database..

        /Andy

/ "Joshua Muskovitz" <josh at open.com> wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| I'm sure that other commercial developers have had this concern, namely, how
| do I prevent others from figuring out how my code works (without the
| original source, that is...)?  Do code obfuscators exist for Python?
| 
| Conversely, are there any bytecode to source code decompilers?  These would
| be of great help in convincing myself that my code is relatively safe from
| prying eyes as well.
| 
| All pointers welcome...
| 
| -- josh
| 
| 
| 
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