A couple years ago, I was writing a script to run a codesigning system (watch an input directory, sign the file, move to output directory). I had been working o

A couple years ago, I was writing a script to run a codesigning system (watch an input directory, sign the file, move to output directory). I had been working on it for a couple days. I got confused with my filenames, and I deleted the script, thinking it was a temp file I'd just created. Luckily, it was Python, which compiles to a bytecode representation when you run the script, and I had done a test-run of the script recently. After a little research into the available tools, I was able to extract the original source (and comments!) from the pyc file. It was a simpler solution than any of the un-delete utilities that I found.