In case anyone is still struggling with this, as I was all morning today, I have found a solution that works for me:
Installation instructions:
git clone https://github.com/gstarnberger/uncompyle.git
cd uncompyle/
sudo ./setup.py install
Once the program is installed (note: it will be installed to your system-wide-accessible Python packages, so it should be in your $PATH
), you can recover your Python files like so:
uncompyler.py thank_goodness_this_still_exists.pyc > recovered_file.py
The decompiler adds some noise mostly in the form of comments, however I've found it to be surprisingly clean and faithful to my original code. You will have to remove a little line of text beginning with +++ near the end of the recovered file to be able to run your code.