Re: Packaging decompyle - policy question

[Ben Burton <benb@acm.org>]

> > Hi.  So I'm packaging decompyle which decompiles a .pyc bytecode file and
> > converts it back to python source.
>
> No offense, but when would you need such a tool? I'm not critical to
> packaging this for debian, just wondering when I would need it.

I've already used it once, when I inadvertently deleted a .py file and after 
searching the web for a decompiler managed to retrieve an almost perfect copy 
of the source by running decompyle on the .pyc file.

Ben.

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