Source code

[Terje Johan Abrahamsen]

"Don Bennett" <dpbmisc at pobox.com> wrote in message
news:4qLh9.1185$%U1.52435185 at newssvr21.news.prodigy.com...
> Terje Johan Abrahamsen wrote:
>  > If I would like to write some code that would not be possible for
> others to
>  > read, after I distribute the program, would Python be suitable?
>
> Yes.
>
>  > I know that
>  > there are a few programs like Py2Exe, that creates .exe files. But, I
> also
>  > saw this:
>  >
>  > --------------------
>  >  A zip-compatible archive is built, containing all files from this
>  >   directory as well as your script, and appended to a custom python
>  >   interpreter supplied with py2exe.
>  > --------------------
>  >
>  > Doesn't sound like it is protected very well. Is there some
> alternative to
>  > Py2Exe that can do the job, or should I look for a compiled language
>  > instead?
>  >
> Take a look at Tools/freeze.py.
>
> With this tool, you can compile your python files in to C files, and
> then link the C files with the python interpreter to create a
> stand-alone executable that represents your program.

Thanks... I will check that out...