Python scripts in .exe form

[Barry]

> On 20 Aug 2022, at 14:28, Jim Schwartz <jschwar at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> 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

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>> On Aug 19, 2022, at 9:51 PM, Mona Lee <monamlee00 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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? 
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>> 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>
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>> From there I redownloaded my VS code but still have the 2) issue.
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>> 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.
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>> 3. also wanted to mention that some of my old Python programs are missing.
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