On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:59:44 -0500, skip wrote: > Marc> On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:18:47 -0600, Joe Strout wrote: > >> We have a client who's paranoid about distributing the Python > >> source to his commercial app. Is there some way I can distribute > >> and use just the .pyc files, so as to not give away the source? > > Marc> Yes. Just use the *.pyc files. > > Though of course there is decompyle to consider, assuming Joe's client > is truly paranoid.
Simply don't tell the client. All he has to know is that it's basically the same as Java *.class files. Most paranoid clients are fine with that. Unless you tell them there are decompilers for *.class files. :-) Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list