How to (Painfully) Do It Anyway Find PYZ-00.pyz in _MEIPASS (for one-file mode) or dist/yourapp/ (one-folder mode). Extract it manually using pyi-archive_viewer: pyi-archive_viewer app_name.exe Load .pyc files manually using importlib.util: import importlib.util spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("mymodule", "extracted/mymodule.pyc") mymodule = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec) spec.loader.exec_module(mymodule) print(mymodule.some_function()) Cry and question life choices.