Python scripts in .exe form

[Mona Lee]

I didn't create exe files they kind of just appeared I guess? Perhaps somewhere in the process of redownloading my python/visual studio?

My situation is similar to this person's description that I found online
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62315149/why-are-my-python-packages-being-installed-to-this-strange-folder 

On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 7:25:31 AM UTC-6, Jim Schwartz 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. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone 
> 
> > On Aug 19, 2022, at 9:51 PM, Mona Lee 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