Is it possible to get some information out of the .pyc file that is generated from a .py file?
Uncompyle6 works for Python 3.x and 2.7 - recommended option as it's most recent tool, aiming to unify earlier forks and focusing on automated unit testing. The GitHub page has more details.
If you use Python 3.7+, you could also try decompyle3, a fork of Uncompyle6 focusing on 3.7 and higher.
Do raise GitHub issues on these projects if needed - both run unit test suites on a range of Python versions.
With these tools, you get your code back including variable names and docstrings, but without the comments.
The older Uncompyle2 supports Python 2.7 only. This worked well for me some time ago to decompile the .pyc bytecode into .py, whereas unpyclib crashed with an exception.
Preventing this in future
See this answer for some tips that may work in your editor or IDE, including VS Code.
You may try Easy Python Decompiler. It's based on Decompyle++ and Uncompyle2. It's supports decompiling python versions 1.0-3.3
Note: I am the author of the above tool.
Yes, you can get it with unpyclib
that can be found on pypi.
$ pip install unpyclib
Than you can decompile your .pyc file
$ python -m unpyclib.application -Dq path/to/file.pyc
print __copyright
-- why is it using the Python 2.7 version of print
without parenthesis?
unpyclib
's first and last release was in 2009, safe to say it's a Python 2 only program.
Yes.
I use uncompyle6 decompile (even support latest Python 3.8.0):
uncompyle6 utils.cpython-38.pyc > utils.py
and the origin python and decompiled python comparing look like this:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zw0aN.jpg
so you can see, ALMOST same, decompile effect is VERY GOOD.
uncompyle6
is incredible.
Decompyle++ (pycdc) was the only one that worked for me: https://github.com/zrax/pycdc
was suggested in Decompile Python 2.7 .pyc
I've been at this for a couple hours and finally have a solution using Decompyle++:
visit https://cmake.org/download/ and install CMake.
visit https://github.com/zrax/pycdc and grab a copy of this repo: pycdc-master.
add C:\Program Files\CMake\bin to your system environment variables under PATH.
I suggest putting your pycdc-master
folder into another folder, like anotherFolder
.
Now you can run these commands in the command line:
cd anotherFolder to go into the folder that has pycdc-master in it.
cmake pycdc-master
cd ../ to go up one directory,
then: cmake --build anotherFolder
pycdc.exe
will then be in anotherFolder\Debug
.
Do something like pycdc.exe onlyhopeofgettingmycodeback.pyc
in a console and it will print out the source code. I had Python 3.9.6 source code and nothing else was working.
build
folder inside the repo and then inside the build
folder you call cmake ..
Yes, it is possible.
There is a perfect open-source Python (.PYC) decompiler, called Decompyle++ https://github.com/zrax/pycdc/
Decompyle++ aims to translate compiled Python byte-code back into valid and human-readable Python source code. While other projects have achieved this with varied success, Decompyle++ is unique in that it seeks to support byte-code from any version of Python.
Install using pip install pycompyle6
pycompyle6 filename.pyc
If you need to decompile a pyc but have python 3.9 installed you can force uncompyle6 to run. It's not perfect but it does work. Just edit site-packages\uncompyle6\bin\uncompile.py
def main_bin():
if not (sys.version_info[0:2] in ((2, 6), (2, 7), (3, 0),
(3, 1), (3, 2), (3, 3),
(3, 4), (3, 5), (3, 6),
(3, 7), (3, 8), (3, 9)
Just add the version you have installed in the same format as the others and save. It will at least run.
Success story sharing
uncompyle6
is also available online at decompiler.com