Ned Batchelder has posted a short script that will unmarshal a .pyc file and disassemble any code objects within, so you'll be able to see the Python bytecode.
It looks like with newer versions of Python, you'll need to comment out the lines that set modtime
and print it (but don't comment the line that sets moddate
).
Turning that back into Python source would be somewhat more difficult, although theoretically possible. I assume all these programs that work for older versions of Python do that.