Low level memory management

[Chris Liechti]

"Lorenzo Bolognini" <false at email.com> wrote in
news:KLMG8.1134$z87.12314 at twister2.libero.it: 

> Hi all,
> 
> is there a way to manipulate at a low level memory in Python (as in C)
> ? 

first, look at the struct module it is good to convert memory from c or 
others to python types and back.
(it works with strings containing the memory, where do you get those from, 
is an other question)

> I know that Python wasn't thought to do that but there maybe a Python
> module that acts as a wrapper around some low level functions written
> in C. 

what functions do you expect? e.g. string = readFromMemory(address, size)
is dead simple to implement as C extension - the other problem is your OS 
that prevents you from reading from arbitrary addresses...

(on linux there is the memory file in /proc where you can dig in the memory 
as root - should be simple to use with open and seek file operations)

chris


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Chris <cliechti at gmx.net>