Protect or hide scripts

[[An...]]

Hi, I have written thousands of lines and hundreds of libraries in python to customize and automate processes and now I need to protect or rather, hide / encrypt my lines, so as not to give everything away to third parties. Is there a way to make this possible on the machine, so that everything continues to work but without making visible the work I have developed?
Thanks

Antonio

[[Na...]]

Hello Antonio,

when creating a package you have the option to protect the package content. The actual code is not visible for package users.

Regards,

Nanno

[[An...]]

This is a feature available from which software version? I can't find it on Gom Inspect Professional 2018.

 

Thanks.

Antonio

[[Ro...]]

There's not available in the 2018 version.

[[Be...]]

Packages were introduced with the 2020 version and replaces concepts like skins etc. in our software.

[[Da...]]

I got a complain about protection of scripts in 2020 version maybe could be taken into account or maybe you already have a solution.

- if the script is protected BUT the script runs into an unexpected error, the error is reported without any kind of filter so that the final user could get a message like:

"Error in line 241: no file in "C:\MySecretHiddenFolder\MySupersecretParametersFile.txt"

Is there a way to protect also the error messages (of course error handling would be the optimum solution, but sometimes the error hadn't been taken into account as a possible situation)?

Thanks :)

[[Be...]]

Hi Davide,

I forwarded this feedback to the responsible department but got no feedback yet.

And yes: Scripting is programming and serious programming cares for "error handling" (this is also in our daily work as developers a lot of amount of time to think and to care for wrong input parameters).

Regards

[[Fr...]]

Hi,

no, error messages can only be hidden 'programmatically'. Maybe you could just wrap your entire solution into a try/except block raising the exception by default, which you disable just before the release ? And it is really necessary to hide error messages, too ? You will strip yourself from the ability to react to errors happening at customer sites.

Regards,
Frank

[[We...]]

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You can compile source code before GIP 2020.