Hiding source code with python.

[tired verge]

I am making an application in python. I do not want people to see the source code or decompile it. How can I hide the source code from people but running the code perfectly with the same performance?

[hoary anchor]

Do you want people to run it themself?

[austere owl]

Are you wanting to make the bot for public use or what?

or just use by themself

[tired verge]

run it themselves

[austere owl]

then they will have to need access to source code

[tired verge]

i have seen bots that use node.js & python locally ran but all configs are in a seperate file (which i’m running) i’m looking to basically just obfuscate the main code

[hoary anchor]

The configs wont be hard

but they need to download the code so they can see the code themself if they wish

[tired verge]

what if i compile the main.py into an executable would the config.yml (for example) still work?

[hoary anchor]

I dont know but why do you want to hide your code?

If people run them themself they will see the code as they can decompline the .exe file

[tired verge]

paid bot not wanting to show the source with license keys

[hoary anchor]

But if people pay for your bot then host it for them

They dont have the headache of getting a server and there bot is always up to date

[tired verge]

hm good point lol, i’ll figure it out anyway thank you for the help though

[shy rain]

@tired verge, you just advanced to level 2 !

[hoary anchor]

What you could do is have it download the files from a server when they get a license but this requires more work and doesn’t prevent them distributing your code further

[tired verge]

yea that’s my main thing i’m trying to get, stop them from distributing my code

[hoary anchor]

Well then I would recommend you hosting it

If they pay for it anyway you can even develop a simple panel which only modifies that specific config file but it can’t access the other files

So they can setup there own bot hosted on your hardware so there is no way to access the source

[austere owl]

Dashboard is the term

[graceful crest]

It's not really possible to obfuscate your Python code, there's no actually mature python obfuscators, even if you use py2exe or something similar it still packs your raw python files in the exe and they can be extracted

[shy rain]

@graceful crest, you just advanced to level 22 !

[graceful crest]

also you generally shouldnt store license keys in the source code unless its just the license key for that specific file

[hoary anchor]

I know

[jade mantle]

let's just say: python was built to be readable. There is little way to acutally obfusicate it. The only semi-obfusicatable way is to compile it to bytecode