On 8/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Richter</b> <<a href="mailto:ttmrichter@gmail.com">ttmrichter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div></div><div>The problem is, I think, that the interpreter itself has to open and read in the files to execute them. Executing a proper binary is done at the OS level itself in the binary loader, so it doesn't require a process to open a file, read it, etc.
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So these Python scripts? Have to be readable. If you don't want them readable, you should do something like compile them to bytecode and make those files readable (after stripping all doc strings, etc.) which still won't quite do what you want, but will be better than what you've got.
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Ok that makes sense, thanks for the help, Michael, and Felipe.<br><br>-Greg<br>