py2exe how safe is my source ?

Glyph Lefkowitz glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Sun Jun 10 18:19:11 EDT 2001


On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Alex Martelli wrote:

> I don't know if anybody has bothered pattern-recognizing the output of
> dis.dis back into Python source, but at least for one fixed Python
> version it should be rather doable.

Yep.  There's a rather good program called "decompyle" which I've used
more than once :).

If you want your "source code" to be safe, don't give executables to your
customers.  You'd be surprised what a dedicated person with SoftICE can do
with a week or two.


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