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Is it possible to decompile a compiled .pyc file into a .py file?

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Uncompyle6 works for Python 3.x and 2.7 – recommended option as it’s most recent tool, aiming to unify earlier forks and focusing on automated unit testing. The GitHub page has more details. if you use Python 3.7+, you could also try decompile3, a fork of Uncompyle6 focusing on 3.7 and higher. do raise GitHub issues on these projects if … Read more

If Python is interpreted, what are .pyc files?

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They contain byte code, which is what the Python interpreter compiles the source to. This code is then executed by Python’s virtual machine. Python’s documentation explains the definition like this: Python is an interpreted language, as opposed to a compiled one, though the distinction can be blurry because of the presence of the bytecode compiler. This means … Read more