How to protect python code ?
Kyler Laird
Kyler at news.Lairds.org
Tue Apr 8 13:23:59 EDT 2003
alloydflanagan at attbi.com (A. Lloyd Flanagan) writes:
>I'm going to make a suggestion you may not hear from anybody else in
>this group. If hiding the code is important to you, don't use Python.
> Use C++ or something similiar.
I suggest Perl. I moved to Python in part because I could
rarely read Perl code generated by someone else or even my
own code after it sat for a month or so.
I consider Perl a write-only language.
>What about coding the sensitive algorithms in C and calling them from
>python? There are of course decompilers for C as well, but it's at
>least harder.
Someday Microsoft will save us from this sorry state with
Palladium. Then we can all relax.
--kyler
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