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On Thu, Dec 5, 2013, at 10:49, Michael Herrmann wrote:
> Very interesting point. Thank you very much for pointing out uncompyle. I
> had always known that it was easy to decompile .pyc files, but hadn't
> imagined it to be that easy. I just tried uncompyle with some of our
> proprietary .pyc files. It took 5 minutes to set up and the results are
> near-perfect. Scary... :-S We might have to look into tools such as
> http://www.bitboost.com/#Python_obfuscator to obfuscate our code.

Or you could just sue anyone who steals your code.