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 <monamle...@gmail.com> 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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
