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[freedomjazzdance]

so im pretty new to programming in general, but these two languages i am even newer to.

I'm trying to find out if there is a way to compile a perl/python program so that it is encrypted, and the source could not be read.

or are these languages just scripts?

Thanks.

[machinamedia]

For Perl :

Quote

Protect your valuable Perl source code from the prying eyes of the casual user! pENC's innovative encryption system allows certain types+ of perl script to be not only encrypted once. but multiple times!

You can find it at: http://www.scriptsfi...detailed/4.html

Also you can read more about perl source encryption here: http://www.webmaster...orum13/3109.htm

For Python
No clue

Cheers!

[coolcat50]

Perl programs can't be hidden that well to my knowledge. If you need really protected code, use C or C++ which must be compiled. Perl is a good beginner's lanuage, and is great because of CGI support. I do not know of a way to encrypt perl though. One way could be to make the directories of a program be executable only.

[marekdudek]

Python can produce *.pyc file for every *.py file. It is a bytecode so it's pretty unreadable althou it's done to load faster.
There are also *.pyo files, but they can cause trouble.

Other thing is to produce *.exe executable from *.py. It can be done for Windows but not for Linux AFAIK.

Hope that helps

[CalebFTW]

hello freedomjazzdance I don't know if you have already figured out how to compile them on your own but i'll try and help anyways for python download py2exe http://py2exe.org/ it is completly free but it includes a mini version of the python environment making a script a little larger then it should then to compile it just make a python file like:
import py2exe
setup(console=['program.py'])
then for perl it costs money but it has a free 21 day trial enough time to compile any projects you want to release download PDK(perl dev kit) from here: http://www.activesta...om/perl-dev-kit program explains itself good luck also can compile for any os just not windows making your appication multiplatform
~calebFTW