Hey all:
I am working on a little script that needs to pull the strings out of a binary file, and then manipulate them with python.
The command line utility "strings" (part of binutils) has exactly the functionality I need, but I was thinking about trying to implement this in pure python.
I did some reading on opening and reading binary files, etc., and was just wondering if people think this is possible, or worth my time (as a learning exercise), or if something like this already exists.
I think a bare-bones version is pretty simple: - read the file - use re.split() to split on non-printable characters (string.printable could be handy here) - print anything in the resulting list that is at least 4 characters
Since you mention this as a learning exercise I'll refrain from posting code but it's only a handful of lines...of course implementing all of 'strings' is a bit more work.
Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
