> On 20 Aug 2022, at 14:28, Jim Schwartz <jsch...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > What method did you use to create the exe file from your python scripts? If > it was pyinstaller, then it puts the compiled versions of these python > scripts in a windows temp folder when you run them. You’ll be able to get the > scripts from there.
The temp file is only for .dll files the python code is in a data block that is appended to the .exe stub. There are tools that can grab the appended dat and dump it out. Or atleast should be. Barry > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Aug 19, 2022, at 9:51 PM, Mona Lee <monamle...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm pretty new to Python, and I had to do some tinkering because I was >> running into issues with trying to download a package from PIP and must've >> caused some issues in my program that I don't know how to fix >> >> 1. It started when I was unable to update PIP to the newest version because >> of some "Unknown error" (VS Code error - unable to read file - >> (Unknown(FileSystemError) where I believe some file was not saved in the >> right location? >> >> 2. In my command line on VS code there used to be the prefix that looked >> something like "PS C:\Users\[name]>" but now it is "PS >> C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\Scripts> >> >> From there I redownloaded my VS code but still have the 2) issue. >> >> also, my scripts are now in the .exe form that I cannot access because "it >> is either binary or in a unsupported text encoding" I've tried to extract it >> back into the .py form using pyinstxtractor and decompile-python3 but I >> can't successfully work these. >> >> 3. also wanted to mention that some of my old Python programs are missing. >> -- >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
