zrax/pycdc

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4594 stars · 880 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Decompyle++ is a C++ tool that translates compiled Python bytecode (.pyc files) back into readable Python source code. It includes pycdas, a bytecode disassembler, and pycdc, a decompiler, aiming to support bytecode from any Python version.

Use cases

• decompile a .pyc file back to python source
• disassemble python bytecode
• recover lost python source code from compiled files
• analyze malware written in python
• inspect marshalled python code objects
• reverse engineer python binaries

When to choose

• you need to decompile pyc files from many different Python versions
• you want a fast native C++ tool without Python dependencies
• you need both disassembly and decompilation of Python bytecode

When to avoid

• you need perfect, guaranteed-accurate source recovery for modern Python versions
• you prefer a pure-Python tool you can extend easily
• you only need to disassemble bytecode for the current Python interpreter (use the stdlib dis module)

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

parser developer-tools reverse-engineering developer-tools security reverse-engineering windows cli cpp cross-platform python-bytecode decompiler disassembler pyc cmake linux macos

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