Ethically, decompiling software without authorization can be seen as an infringement of the software creator's rights. It disregards the intellectual property and effort invested in developing the software. There are, however, ethical arguments for decompilation in certain contexts, such as educational purposes, forensic analysis, or recovering functionality from obsolete software.

This creates a folder named target.exe_extracted .

pycdc extracted_file.pyc

Converting an EXE back to a source code script is generally a two-step process: followed by decompilation .

Before you start, understand this: . An executable contains machine code, while a .py file is human-readable source. You cannot get your exact original code back with comments, variable names, or structure. Instead, you get a decompiled approximation —often messy but workable.