Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:29:00AM +0100, Peter J White wrote:

> How can I decompile a python PYC file to see the source?

You cannot. .pyc files are bytecode, and you can only disassemble them into a
representation of bytecode. That's not as low-level as machine-code, but
it's not Python code either ! See the 'dis' module on how to disassemble.

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