I didn't create exe files they kind of just appeared I guess? Perhaps somewhere in the process of redownloading my python/visual studio?
My situation is similar to this person's description that I found online https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62315149/why-are-my-python-packages-being-installed-to-this-strange-folder On Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 7:25:31 AM UTC-6, Jim Schwartz wrote: > What method did you use to create the exe file from your python scripts? If > it was pyinstaller, then it puts the compiled versions of these python > scripts in a windows temp folder when you run them. You’ll be able to get the > scripts from there. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Aug 19, 2022, at 9:51 PM, Mona Lee wrote: > > > > I'm pretty new to Python, and I had to do some tinkering because I was > > running into issues with trying to download a package from PIP and must've > > caused some issues in my program that I don't know how to fix > > > > 1. It started when I was unable to update PIP to the newest version because > > of some "Unknown error" (VS Code error - unable to read file - > > (Unknown(FileSystemError) where I believe some file was not saved in the > > right location? > > > > 2. In my command line on VS code there used to be the prefix that looked > > something like "PS C:\Users\[name]>" but now it is "PS > > C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Local\Packages\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.10_qbz5n2kfra8p0\LocalCache\local-packages\Python310\Scripts> > > > > > > From there I redownloaded my VS code but still have the 2) issue. > > > > also, my scripts are now in the .exe form that I cannot access because "it > > is either binary or in a unsupported text encoding" I've tried to extract > > it back into the .py form using pyinstxtractor and decompile-python3 but I > > can't successfully work these. > > > > 3. also wanted to mention that some of my old Python programs are missing. > > -- > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
