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Andrew Lusk alusk at uiuc.edu
Sat Dec 14 00:25:37 EST 2002 
Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:

> Nope.  As you hinted at, there are a few "tricks" for obscuring the 
> source, but in the end analysis, your customers will have access to the 
> source.  Same with Perl, no?  If this is a show-stopper for you, best 
> stick to compiled languages like C++.

Actually, if you embed the interpreter and call your python from C,
doesn't this keep your soruce code secret?  In particular, if one
wanted to distribute a closed source GUI python application, one could
simply keep more of the logic in C and use python for the GUI
programming.

--Andrew
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