[SPAM: 4.499] [Pyrex] Using pyrex to hide source.

Greg Ewing greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Feb 19 01:04:43 CET 2004


jbi130 at yahoo.com:

> I've noticed that with some little changes to some of my pure Python
> modules I can compile them with pyrex into C and they pretty much work
> the same.
> 
> Is this a reasonable method to hide some of my more critical modules?

It would certainly be a lot harder to decompile than
Python bytecode.

Just keep in mind that Pyrex is still under development,
so if your customers are using your code for anything
critical, there's a risk of them getting bitten by
bugs in Pyrex.

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