On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Terry Kerr wrote:
I am researching using zope as a framework for a product that I am going develop and sell. I will develop a python product for zope. The product will not be open source, so I will only be distributing the byte code .pyc files, and not the source. However I understand that it is possible to decompyle .pyc files back to the source....although I don't know how difficult this is to do successfully. Are there any tricks
Pretty easy... There are good decompilers there...
that I should know about to make this any harder?
I doubt.
Basically I want to know if anyone else has used zope for a commercial product b4, and how they did it. Is there anything in particular that I should know about. Should I just rely on a good software license to
I think good license, good support and good price would serve you much better than any tricks.
protect my code? Also...are .pyc files as platform independent as .py files?
Currently yes, but I'd recommend not to rely on this - may change in the future. Oleg. (All opinions are mine and not of my employer) ---- Oleg Broytmann Foundation for Effective Policies phd@phd.russ.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.