Issues with unpacking

[cookins]

hello
i have last python, freshly installed in Windows. i cant unpack some pak file from game Stardrop - here what i getting:

>>> C:\Users\****\Desktop\u4pak.py unpack E:\games\STARDROP\STARDROP\Content\Paks\STARDROP-WindowsNoEditor.pak
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    C:\Users\****\Desktop\u4pak.py unpack E:\games\STARDROP\STARDROP\Content\Paks\STARDROP-WindowsNoEditor.pak
                                                                                                              ^
SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character

any suggestions?
thanks!

p.s.
never used pyhton before... if you ask!

[panzi]

Did you enter this in the Python shell? You need to run that script from the Windows command prompt.

Open cmd.exe, then enter python C:\Users\****\Desktop\u4pak.py unpack E:\games\STARDROP\STARDROP\Content\Paks\STARDROP-WindowsNoEditor.pak

[cookins]

now i tried same thing from cmd.exe - paste from cmd:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.590]
(c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>python
Python 3.7.2 (tags/v3.7.2:9a3ffc0492, Dec 23 2018, 22:20:52) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> E:\games\STARDROP\STARDROP\Content\Paks\u4pak.py unpack
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    E:\games\STARDROP\STARDROP\Content\Paks\u4pak.py unpack
                                                          ^
SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character
>>>

[panzi]

You're not doing what I said you should do. The E:\game\... part is NOT Python code. Entering it in a python shell of course gives you a syntax error. It is the filename of a script that shall be run. You need to pass it as an argument to the python binary. It should look somewhat like this:

Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2019.

C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32> cd "C:\Users\cookins\Documents"
C:\Users\cookins\Documents> python.exe "C:\Users\cookins\Desktop\u4pak.py" unpack "E:\games\STARDROP\STARDROP\Content\Paks\STARDROP-WindowsNoEditor.pak"

Followed by the output of the u4pak.py script.

[cookins]

my bad.
im newbie with python.
is that correct? -
E:\games\STARDROP\STARDROP\Content\Paks>python.exe "u4pak.py" unpack "STARDROP-WindowsNoEditor.pak"
but i getting that:
'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xbb in position 93: invalid start byte

[panzi]

Ok, that is weird. You could try to replace the 'utf-8' in line 538 of u4pak.py with 'latin1'. Does it work then? But 0xbb in latin1 is the character », which would be an odd character in a file name.

[cookins]

Maybe some other time. Don't have it for now. Sorry for trouble.