The MIME type text/x-python
, and the file extension .py
, are usually attached to plain-text files.
The file in your question is binary, not plain text, and so neither the file extension .py
nor the MIME type text/python
are appropriate. In other words: the file has a misleading name.
The bytes shown in the hexdump correspond to compiled Python bytecode. Files like these are usually named with .pyc
instead of .py
. When the Python interpreter loads a module from a .py
text file, it compiles the text into bytecode saves a copy of the compiled result in a .pyc
file. This means that loading is faster next time.
If you have .pyc
bytecode but not the original .py
, there are tools to disassemble ("decompile") the bytecode and show the results in Python text, but that's quite unusual situation.
See also: Is it possible to decompile a compiled .pyc file into a .py file?