How to decompile an exe file compiled by py2exe?

[A.B., Khalid]

Leo Jay wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I lost my source code because of my incaution.
> so anyone can tell me how to decompile the exe file compiled by py2exe?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Leo Jay


In older versions of py2exe (haven't tried it for new ones) I only had
to drag the py2exe created file to my zip archiever program window.
That somehow got the program to treat the py2exe application as a zip
archieve effectively decompressing it right there in the window of the
program. This enabled me to extract the files if I wish to do so to any
place I want.

This is also valid, I noted, for the binary distributions created for
windows by the distutils.