hide sourcecode

[Anand Pillai]

In a lighter vein, why do you want to hide your
python source code? Python is an 'open source' language
so I advise you to share your source code with us :-)

-Anand

Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at nospam.uci.edu> wrote in message news:<bvu6m3$cg1$1 at news.service.uci.edu>...
> > I don't know about Windows, but on Unix you can create a script with
> > permissions 700 and create a small setuid program executing this script.
> > 
> > Don't know whether Windows has such useful things though, probably not :-P
> 
> I've never used setuid, but I would imagine that it works as the name 
> suggests, it sets the user id of the process.  Which would allow you to 
> run the script with Python, but not read the source.
> 
> There is likely a nontrivial set of methods and system calls where a 
> script could use the 'run as' service in windows to do a similar thing, 
> but I wouldn't want to write it.
> 
>   - Josiah