hexdump 2.0

01 - dump binary data string

Python 2:

>>> import hexdump
>>> hexdump.hexdump('\x00'*16)
00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

Python 3:

>>> import hexdump
>>> hexdump.hexdump('\x00'*16)
...
TypeError: Abstract unicode data (expected bytes)
>>> hexdump.hexdump(b'\x00'*16)
00000000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................

Python 3 strings are arrays of abstract indexes in unicode table. Single index is an integer which takes more than one byte when stored, so you need to specify exactly how to store these bytes with encoding.

02 - restore binary data from hex dump string

Python 2:

>>> import hexdump
>>> res = hexdump.restore(
... '0010: 00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77  88 99 AA BB CC DD EE FF  .."3DUfw........')
>>> res
'\x00\x11"3DUfw\x88\x99\xaa\xbb\xcc\xdd\xee\xff'
>>> type(res)
<type 'str'>

Python 3:

>>> import hexdump
>>> res = hexdump.restore(
... '0010: 00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77  88 99 AA BB CC DD EE FF  .."3DUfw........')
>>> res
b'\x00\x11"3DUfw\x88\x99\xaa\xbb\xcc\xdd\xee\xff'
>>> type(res)
<class 'bytes'>

03 - use as command line tool

Make hex dump of binary data:

$ python hexdump.py binary.dat > hexdump.txt
# or
$ python -m hexdump binary.dat
0000000000: 00 00 00 5B 68 65 78 64  75 6D 70 5D 00 00 00 00  ...[hexdump]....
0000000010: 00 11 22 33 44 55 66 77  88 99 AA BB CC DD EE FF  .."3DUfw........

Restore binary data:

$ python -m hexdump --restore hexdump.txt > binary.dat

04 - run self-tests

Automatically with tox:

$ tox

Manually:

$ hexdump.py --test output.txt
$ diff -u3 hextest.txt output.txt

ChangeLog

2.0 (2014-02-02)

• add –restore option to command line mode to get binary data back from hex dump

• support saving test output with –test logfile

• restore() from hex strings without spaces

• restore() now raises TypeError if input data is not string

• hexdump() and dumpgen() now don’t return unicode strings in Python 2.x when generator is requested

1.0 (2013-12-30)

• length of address is reduced from 10 to 8

• hexdump() got new ‘result’ keyword argument, it can be either ‘print’, ‘generator’ or ‘return’

• actual dumping logic is now in new dumpgen() generator function

• new dump(binary) function that takes binary data and returns string like “66 6F 72 6D 61 74”

• new genchunks(mixed, size) function that chunks both sequences and file like objects

0.5 (2013-06-10)

• hexdump is now also a command line utility (no restore yet)

0.4 (2013-06-09)

• fix installation with Python 3 for non English versions of Windows, thanks to George Schizas

0.3 (2013-04-29)

• fully Python 3 compatible

0.2 (2013-04-28)

• restore() to recover binary data from a hex dump in native, Far Manager and Scapy text formats (others might work as well)

• restore() is Python 3 compatible

0.1 (2013-04-28)

• working hexdump() function for Python 2

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