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The method described is for recovering and decompiling bytecode into equivalent Python code, which is not exactly the same thing as source code, since it won't

The method described is for recovering and decompiling bytecode into equivalent Python code, which is not exactly the same thing as source code, since it won't contain things like comments and unexported object names. edit: made more accurate

dr_zoidberg 10y ago
Indeed, but it just gave me an idea for a weird use case we've been discussing at work :)
Latty 10y ago
Of course, Python is a little better than most languages for things like 'comments' - as a lot of them aren't really comments but docstrings, which are actually a part of the class, not a true comment, and so presumably can be restored.
- lewk 10y ago
  Not if you use `python -OO`, which will optimize the docstrings out.