Re: [python-win32] Anti-reverse Python-based binaries?

2012-02-10 Thread niki
On 9.02.2012 20:41, Tim Roberts wrote: Jun Koi wrote: 1) how serious this problem is in your opinion? is it really true that it is impossible to protect the binaries from reversing? Yes. If this is an issue for you, then you should not be using an interpreted language at all. You need to us

Re: [python-win32] Anti-reverse Python-based binaries?

2012-02-10 Thread Harald Armin Massa[legacy]
> > ...decompiling "protection".. the correct answer is of course "put the code on a server" BUT there is code that cannot reside on a server. Especially client code in a client-server-environment. Example: the dropbox client. OnlineGameClients. As much as I learned Dropbox took a quite effect

Re: [python-win32] Anti-reverse Python-based binaries?

2012-02-10 Thread Aahz
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012, Harald Armin Massa[legacy] wrote: > > As much as I learned Dropbox took a quite effective approach: reshuffle the > Python bytecodes, compile your own Python. > > Rises the costs of reengeneering quite a bit. Not enough to make a difference (speaking as someone who works for

Re: [python-win32] Anti-reverse Python-based binaries?

2012-02-10 Thread Kris Hardy
A few notes regarding intellectual property protection... If I remember correctly, Microsoft's first Commerce Server was written in Python by a company that they acquired, and Microsoft actually shipped it as .pyc files. (I may be wrong, but that's what I remember hearing). Whether or not t

Re: [python-win32] Anti-reverse Python-based binaries?

2012-02-10 Thread Dietmar Schwertberger
Am 10.02.2012 09:03, schrieb niki: On 9.02.2012 20:41, Tim Roberts wrote: Yes. If this is an issue for you, then you should not be using an interpreted language at all. You need to use something that is compiled, like C++. Even compiled code can be reverse-engineered, but it's much harder. IMH

[python-win32] Editor find and replace can't count - off by one error

2012-02-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
Hi all, I assume that this is a long time known problem that is regarded as a joke but when I do a find and replace the number of items reported as replaced is always one less than it should be. Fix and/or workaround pretty please. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence. ___

Re: [python-win32] Editor find and replace can't count - off by one error

2012-02-10 Thread Dahlstrom, Roger
Count from zero? Via Blackberry - Original Message - From: Mark Lawrence [mailto:breamore...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 09:17 PM To: python-win32@python.org Subject: [python-win32] Editor find and replace can't count - off by one error Hi all, I assume that

Re: [python-win32] Editor find and replace can't count - off by one error

2012-02-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 11/02/2012 02:27, Dahlstrom, Roger wrote: Count from zero? Via Blackberry - Original Message - From: Mark Lawrence [mailto:breamore...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 09:17 PM To: python-win32@python.org Subject: [python-win32] Editor find and replace can't count - off

[python-win32] Cannot resize interactive window

2012-02-10 Thread Mark Lawrence
Hi all, I think I've fouled up by hitting a key combination that prevents me from resizing, i.e. the Minimize, Maximize and Close options don't show at all on the top right of the window. All the code windows are just fine. Any ideas as to what the hell I've done wrong? -- Cheers. Mark La