Switch from perl to python?

Roy Smith roy at panix.com
Sat Dec 14 00:59:47 EST 2002


Andrew Lusk <alusk at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Actually, if you embed the interpreter and call your python from C,
> doesn't this keep your soruce code secret?

Well, you can certainly imbed a python interpreter in a C application, 
but it's still got to have python code to interpret.  Where's it going 
to get that from?

> In particular, if one
> wanted to distribute a closed source GUI python application, one could
> simply keep more of the logic in C and use python for the GUI
> programming.

Sure, you could do that.  But that doesn't really address the issue of 
hiding Python code.



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