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Python tools If you are involved in vulnerability research

If you are involved in vulnerability research, reverse engineering or penetration testing, I suggest to try out the Python programming language. It has a rich set of useful libraries and programs. This page lists some of them. Most of the listed tools are written in Python, others are just Python

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Sorting IP addresses

How to sort a list of strings that represent IP addresses? Of course, you could supply an appropriate comparison function to the sort() method of the list object, but that’s very inefficient (read: slow). It is better to first pre-process the list so it can be sorted with the efficient

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collection of some useful shortcuts

The following are just a collection of some useful shortcuts and tools I’ve found in Python over the years. Hopefully you find them helpful. Swapping Variables 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 x = 6 y = 5 x, y = y, x print x >>> 5 print

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Check if a file exists in a directory

With Python there are several methods which can be used to check if a file exists, in a certain directory. When checking if a file exists, often it is performed right before accessing (reading and/or writing) a file. Below we will go through each method of checking if a file

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A simple HTTP Server

A simple HTTP Server can be started in seconds. python -m SimpleHTTPServer For Python3: python -m http.server The server starts on port 8000 by default which can be changed. I have found this quite handy at times. For example: To share a complete directory with someone over the Internet, I

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HOWTO Fetch Internet Resources Using urllib2

Author: Michael Foord Introduction Related Articles You may also find useful the following article on fetching web resources with Python: Basic Authentication A tutorial on Basic Authentication, with examples in Python. urllib2 is a Python module for fetching URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). It offers a very simple interface, in the

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