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Asked: June 1, 20262026-06-01T10:32:34+00:00 2026-06-01T10:32:34+00:00

Whenever I try to open .pyc or .pyo files, I always get an error

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Whenever I try to open .pyc or .pyo files, I always get an error that says FAILED TO DECODE.

OS: Lion
Python: 3.0.1

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‘m trying to open them in IDLE, it asks me what the current encoding of the file is, and pre-entered is us-ascii

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    2026-06-01T10:32:36+00:00Added an answer on June 1, 2026 at 10:32 am

    Those are compiled Python bytecode; they can be executed by the interpreter, but they are not human-readable or editable.

    python helloworld.pyc
    
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