How to browse a C Library with Python

[Rafael Sachetto]

This could be a solution

import commands

callables = commands.getoutput("nm -D /lib/libc.so.6 | egrep ' T '
").split("\n")
callables = [c.split()[2] for c in callables]

print callables

On Dec 5, 2007 5:26 PM, Rafael Sachetto <rsachetto at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > with Python it is simple to call direct functions from c-librarys.
> > > Is there a way to browse over a library i.e. '/lib/libc.so' with
> > > python, to see all possible functions in a library?
> >
> > You could use the subprocess module to execute 'nm /lib/libc.so' and look
> > at lines with type T.
>
> To do this on a dynamic library you have to use nm -D /lib/libc.so
>
>
> --
> Rafael Sachetto Oliveira
>
> Sir - Simple Image Resizer
> http://rsachetto.googlepages.com
>



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