https://github.com/vstinner/hachoir

Hachoir is a Python library to view and edit a binary stream field by field
https://github.com/vstinner/hachoir

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Hachoir is a Python library to view and edit a binary stream field by field

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/vstinner/hachoir
• Owner: vstinner
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2016-10-01T15:41:08.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-02-12T22:54:32.000Z (10 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T21:04:40.909Z (8 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://hachoir.readthedocs.io/
• Size: 23.5 MB
• Stars: 587
• Watchers: 22
• Forks: 76
• Open Issues: 13
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
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Hachoir

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Hachoir is a Python library to view and edit a binary stream field by field.

In other words, Hachoir allows you to "browse" any binary stream just like you

browse directories and files.

A file is splitted in a tree of fields, where the smallest field is just one

bit. Examples of fields types: integers, strings, bits, padding types, floats,

etc. Hachoir is the French word for a meat grinder (meat mincer), which is used

by butchers to divide meat into long tubes; Hachoir is used by computer

butchers to divide binary files into fields.

* `Hachoir website `_ (source code, bugs)

* `Hachoir on GitHub (Source code, bug tracker) `_

* License: GNU GPL v2

Command line tools using Hachoir parsers:

* hachoir-grep: find a text pattern in a binary file

* hachoir-metadata: get metadata from binary files

* hachoir-strip: modify a file to remove metadata

* hachoir-urwid: display the content of a binary file in text mode

Installation instructions: http://hachoir.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html

Hachoir is written for Python 3.6 or newer.