Selling Python Software

[Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters]

hwlgw at hotmail.com (Will Stuyvesant) wrote previously:
|Is it not possible to give away a Windows .exe file that can not be
|decompiled (or only with *extreme* difficulty)?

NO! It is NOT possible.

It is not possible in Python.  It is not possible in VB.  It is not
possible in C#.  It is not possible in C. It is not possible in
Fortran.  It is, in fact, not possible in Assembly.

However, distributing a .pyc or an .exe make it require a little bit of
effort to find the underlying code... enough that someone needs to make
a conscious decision to do so, rather than "accidentally" open the .py
file in Notepad.

Yours, Lulu...

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