Closed-source, possible?

[Roger Binns]

Davis Chord wrote:
> I've heard/seen/used the pyc program that turns your .py files into
> .pyc files, but I'm wondering how easily someone can get to your
> source from these compiled files. If it's not possible to have a
> portable progam thats' source cannot be easily accessed (or at all
> :P), then open-source is just easier.

That exact topic comes up fairly frequently on this list.  I would
suggest reading the archives first which you can do at either of
these links:

  http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general
  http://groups.google.com/groups?group=comp.lang.python

Roger