How protect proprietary Python code? (bytecode obfuscation?, what better?)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Apr 18 07:20:16 EDT 2006


Richard Brodie wrote:

>> Do they ask the same thing for Java or .NET apps ?-)
>
> If you Google for "bytecode obfuscation", you'll find a large number
> of products already exist for Java and .Net

and if you google for "python obfuscator", you'll find tools for python.  including
tools that use "psychologically inspired techniques to produce extra confusion in
human readers" (probably by inserting small snippets of Perl here and there...).

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