cs.binary 20240422

Facilities associated with binary data parsing and transcription. The classes in this module support easy parsing of binary data structures, returning instances with the binary data decoded into attributes and capable of transcribing themselves in binary form (trivially via `bytes(instance)` and also otherwise).

Facilities associated with binary data parsing and transcription. The classes in this module support easy parsing of binary data structures, returning instances with the binary data decoded into attributes and capable of transcribing themselves in binary form (trivially via bytes(instance) and also otherwise).

Latest release 20240422: New _BinaryMultiValue_Base.for_json() method returning a dict containing the fields.

Note: this module requires Python 3.6+ because various default behaviours rely on dicts preserving their insert order.

See cs.iso14496 for an ISO 14496 (eg MPEG4) parser built using this module.

Terminology used below:

• buffer: an instance of cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer, which presents an iterable of bytes-like values via various useful methods; it also has a few factory methods to make one from a variety of sources such as bytes, iterables, binary files, mmapped files, TCP data streams, etc.
• chunk: a piece of binary data obeying the buffer protocol, almost always a bytes instance or a memoryview, but in principle also things like bytearray.

There are 5 main classes on which an implementor should base their data structures:

• BinarySingleStruct: a factory for classes based on a struct.struct format string with a single value; this builds a namedtuple subclass
• BinaryMultiStruct: a factory for classes based on a struct.struct format string with multiple values; this also builds a namedtuple subclass
• BinarySingleValue: a base class for subclasses parsing and transcribing a single value
• BinaryMultiValue: a base class for subclasses parsing and transcribing multiple values with no variation
• SimpleBinary: a base class for subclasses with custom .parse and .transcribe methods, for structures with variable fields

All the classes derived from the above inherit all the methods of BinaryMixin. Amongst other things, this means that the binary transcription can be had simply from bytes(instance), although there are more transcription methods provided for when greater flexibility is desired. It also means that all classes have parse* and scan* methods for parsing binary data streams.

You can also instantiate objects directly; there's no requirement for the source information to be binary.

There are several presupplied subclasses for common basic types such as UInt32BE (an unsigned 32 bit big endian integer).

Class AbstractBinary(BinaryMixin)

Abstract class for all Binary* implementations, specifying the parse and transcribe methods and providing the methods from BinaryMixin.

Method AbstractBinary.parse(bfr): Parse an instance of cls from the buffer bfr.

Method AbstractBinary.transcribe(self): Return or yield bytes, ASCII string, None or iterables comprising the binary form of this instance.

This aims for maximum convenience when transcribing a data structure.

This may be implemented as a generator, yielding parts of the structure.

This may be implemented as a normal function, returning:

• None: no bytes of data, for example for an omitted or empty structure
• a bytes-like object: the full data bytes for the structure
• an ASCII compatible string: this will be encoded with the 'ascii' encoding to make bytes
• an iterable: the components of the structure, including substranscriptions which themselves adhere to this protocol - they may be None, bytes-like objects, ASCII compatible strings or iterables. This supports directly returning or yielding the result of a field's .transcribe method.

Class BinaryByteses(AbstractBinary)

A list of bytes parsed directly from the native iteration of the buffer.

Function BinaryFixedBytes(class_name, length: int)

Factory for an AbstractBinary subclass matching length bytes of data. The bytes are saved as the attribute .data.

Class BinaryListValues(AbstractBinary)

A list of values with a common parse specification, such as sample or Boxes in an ISO14496 Box structure.

Method BinaryListValues.parse(bfr, count=None, *, end_offset=None, min_count=None, max_count=None, pt): Read values from bfr. Return a BinaryListValue containing the values.

Parameters:

• count: optional count of values to read; if specified, exactly this many values are expected.
• end_offset: an optional bounding end offset of the buffer.
• min_count: the least acceptable number of values.
• max_count: the most acceptable number of values.
• pt: a parse/transcribe specification as accepted by the pt_spec() factory. The values will be returned by its parse function.

Method BinaryListValues.transcribe(self): Transcribe all the values.

Class BinaryMixin

Presupplied helper methods for binary objects.

Naming conventions:

• parse* methods parse a single instance from a buffer
• scan* methods are generators yielding successive instances from a buffer

Method BinaryMixin.__bytes__(self): The binary transcription as a single bytes object.

Method BinaryMixin.__len__(self): Compute the length by running a transcription and measuring it.

Method BinaryMixin.from_bytes(bs, **kw): Factory to parse an instance from the bytes bs starting at offset. Returns the new instance.

Raises ValueError if bs is not entirely consumed. Raises EOFError if bs has insufficient data.

Keyword parameters are passed to the .parse_bytes method.

This relies on the cls.parse method for the parse.

Method BinaryMixin.load(f): Load an instance from the file f which may be a filename or an open file as for BinaryMixin.scan. Return the instance or None if the file is empty.

Method BinaryMixin.parse_bytes(bs, offset=0, length=None, **kw): Factory to parse an instance from the bytes bs starting at offset. Returns (instance,offset) being the new instance and the post offset.

Raises EOFError if bs has insufficient data.

The parameters offset and length are passed to the CornuCopyBuffer.from_bytes factory.

Other keyword parameters are passed to the .parse method.

This relies on the cls.parse method for the parse.

Method BinaryMixin.save(self, f): Save this instance to the file f which may be a filename or an open file. Return the length of the transcription.

Method BinaryMixin.scan(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer, count=None, *, min_count=None, max_count=None, with_offsets=False): Function to scan the buffer bfr for repeated instances of cls until end of input and yield them.

Parameters:

• bfr: the buffer to scan, or any object suitable for CornuCopyBuffer.promote
• count: the required number of instances to scan, equivalent to setting min_count=count and max_count=count
• min_count: the minimum number of instances to scan
• max_count: the maximum number of instances to scan
• with_offsets: optional flag, default False; if true yield (pre_offset,obj,post_offset), otherwise just obj It is in error to specify both count and one of min_count or max_count.

Scanning stops after max_count instances (if specified). If fewer than min_count instances (if specified) are scanned a warning is issued. This is to accomodate nonconformant streams without raising exceptions. Callers wanting to validate max_count may want to probe bfr.at_eof() after return. Callers not wanting a warning over min_count should not specify it, and instead check the number of instances returned themselves.

Method BinaryMixin.scan_fspath(fspath: str, *, with_offsets=False, **kw): Open the file with filesystenm path fspath for read and yield from self.scan(..,**kw) or self.scan_with_offsets(..,**kw) according to the with_offsets parameter.

*Deprecated; please just call scan with a filesystem pathname.

Parameters:

• fspath: the filesystem path of the file to scan
• with_offsets: optional flag, default False; if true then scan with scan_with_offsets instead of with scan Other keyword parameters are passed to scan or scan_with_offsets.

Method BinaryMixin.scan_with_offsets(bfr, count=None, min_count=None, max_count=None): Wrapper for scan() which yields (pre_offset,instance,post_offset) indicating the start and end offsets of the yielded instances. All parameters are as for scan().

*Deprecated; please just call scan with the with_offsets=True parameter.

Method BinaryMixin.self_check(self): Internal self check. Returns True if passed.

If the structure has a FIELD_TYPES attribute, normally a class attribute, then check the fields against it. The FIELD_TYPES attribute is a mapping of field_name to a specification of required and types. The specification may take one of 2 forms:

• a tuple of (required,types)
• a single type; this is equivalent to (True,(type,)) Their meanings are as follows:
• required: a Boolean. If true, the field must be present in the packet field_map, otherwise it need not be present.
• types: a tuple of acceptable field types

There are some special semantics involved here.

An implementation of a structure may choose to make some fields plain instance attributes instead of binary objects in the field_map mapping, particularly variable structures such as a cs.iso14496.BoxHeader, whose .length may be parsed directly from its binary form or computed from other fields depending on the box_size value. Therefore, checking for a field is first done via the field_map mapping, then by getattr, and as such the acceptable types may include nonstructure types such as int.

Here is the cs.iso14496 Box.FIELD_TYPES definition as an example:

FIELD_TYPES = {
    'header': BoxHeader,
    'body': BoxBody,
    'unparsed': list,
    'offset': int,
    'unparsed_offset': int,
    'end_offset': int,
}

Note that length includes some nonstructure types, and that it is written as a tuple of (True,types) because it has more than one acceptable type.

Method BinaryMixin.transcribe_flat(self): Return a flat iterable of chunks transcribing this field.

Method BinaryMixin.transcribed_length(self): Compute the length by running a transcription and measuring it.

Function BinaryMultiStruct(class_name: str, struct_format: str, field_names: Union[str, List[str]])

A class factory for AbstractBinary namedtuple subclasses built around complex struct formats.

Parameters:

• class_name: name for the generated class
• struct_format: the struct format string
• field_names: field name list, a space separated string or an interable of strings

Example:

# an "access point" record from the .ap file
Enigma2APInfo = BinaryMultiStruct('Enigma2APInfo', '>QQ', 'pts offset')

# a "cut" record from the .cuts file
Enigma2Cut = BinaryMultiStruct('Enigma2Cut', '>QL', 'pts type')

Function BinaryMultiValue(class_name, field_map, field_order=None)

Construct a SimpleBinary subclass named class_name whose fields are specified by the mapping field_map.

The field_map is a mapping of field name to buffer parsers and transcribers.

Note: if field_order is not specified it is constructed by iterating over field_map. Prior to Python 3.6, dicts do not provide a reliable order and should be accompanied by an explicit field_order. From 3.6 onward a dict is enough and its insertion order will dictate the default field_order.

For a fixed record structure the default .parse and .transcribe methods will suffice; they parse or transcribe each field in turn. Subclasses with variable records should override the .parse and .transcribe methods accordingly.

The field_map is a mapping of field name to a class returned by the pt_spec() function.

If the class has both parse_value and transcribe_value methods then the value itself will be directly stored. Otherwise the class it presumed to be more complex subclass of AbstractBinary and the instance is stored.

Here is an example exhibiting various ways of defining each field:

• n1: defined with the *_value methods of UInt8, which return or transcribe the int from an unsigned 8 bit value; this stores a BinarySingleValue whose .value is an int

• n2: defined from the UInt8 class, which parses an unsigned 8 bit value; this stores an UInt8 instance (also a BinarySingleValue whole .value is an int)

• n3: like n2

• data1: defined with the *_value methods of BSData, which return or transcribe the data bytes from a run length encoded data chunk; this stores a BinarySingleValue whose .value is a bytes

• data2: defined from the BSData class which parses a run length encoded data chunk; this is a BinarySingleValue so we store its bytes value directly.

  >>> class BMV(BinaryMultiValue("BMV", {
  ...         'n1': (UInt8.parse_value, UInt8.transcribe_value),
  ...         'n2': UInt8,
  ...         'n3': UInt8,
  ...         'nd': ('>H4s', 'short bs'),
  ...         'data1': (
  ...             BSData.parse_value,
  ...             BSData.transcribe_value,
  ...         ),
  ...         'data2': BSData,
  ... })):
  ...     pass
  >>> BMV.FIELD_ORDER
  ['n1', 'n2', 'n3', 'nd', 'data1', 'data2']
  >>> bmv = BMV.from_bytes(b'\x11\x22\x77\x81\x82zyxw\x02AB\x04DEFG')
  >>> bmv.n1  #doctest: +ELLIPSIS
  17
  >>> bmv.n2
  34
  >>> bmv  #doctest: +ELLIPSIS
  BMV(n1=17, n2=34, n3=119, nd=nd_1_short__bs(short=33154, bs=b'zyxw'), data1=b'AB', data2=b'DEFG')
  >>> bmv.nd  #doctest: +ELLIPSIS
  nd_1_short__bs(short=33154, bs=b'zyxw')
  >>> bmv.nd.bs
  b'zyxw'
  >>> bytes(bmv.nd)
  b'‚zyxw'
  >>> bmv.data1
  b'AB'
  >>> bmv.data2
  b'DEFG'
  >>> bytes(bmv)
  b'\x11"w\x81\x82zyxw\x02AB\x04DEFG'
  >>> list(bmv.transcribe_flat())
  [b'\x11', b'"', b'w', b'\x81\x82zyxw', b'\x02', b'AB', b'\x04', b'DEFG']
  

Function BinarySingleStruct(class_name, struct_format, field_name=None)

A convenience wrapper for BinaryMultiStruct for struct_formats with a single field.

Parameters:

• class_name: the class name for the generated class
• struct_format: the struct format string, specifying a single struct field
• field_name: optional field name for the value, default 'value'

Example:

>>> UInt16BE = BinarySingleStruct('UInt16BE', '>H')
>>> UInt16BE.__name__
'UInt16BE'
>>> UInt16BE.format
'>H'
>>> UInt16BE.struct   #doctest: +ELLIPSIS
<_struct.Struct object at ...>
>>> field = UInt16BE.from_bytes(bytes((2,3)))
>>> field
UInt16BE(value=515)
>>> field.value
515

Class BinarySingleValue(AbstractBinary)

A representation of a single value as the attribute .value.

Subclasses must implement:

• parse or parse_value
• transcribe or transcribe_value

Method BinarySingleValue.parse(bfr): Parse an instance from bfr.

Subclasses must implement this method or parse_value.

Method BinarySingleValue.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr based on this class.

Subclasses must implement this method or parse.

Method BinarySingleValue.parse_value_from_bytes(bs, offset=0, length=None, **kw): Parse a value from the bytes bs based on this class. Return (value,offset).

Method BinarySingleValue.scan_values(bfr, **kw): Scan bfr, yield values.

Method BinarySingleValue.transcribe(self): Transcribe this instance as bytes.

Subclasses must implement this method or transcribe_value.

Method BinarySingleValue.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe value as bytes based on this class.

Subclasses must implement this method or transcribe.

Class BinaryUTF16NUL(BinarySingleValue)

A NUL terminated UTF-16 string.

Method BinaryUTF16NUL.__init__(self, value, *, encoding): pylint: disable=super-init-not-called

Method BinaryUTF16NUL.parse(bfr, *, encoding): Parse the encoding and value and construct an instance.

Method BinaryUTF16NUL.parse_value(bfr, *, encoding): Read a NUL terminated UTF-16 string from bfr, return a UTF16NULField.. The mandatory parameter encoding specifies the UTF16 encoding to use ('utf_16_be' or 'utf_16_le').

Method BinaryUTF16NUL.transcribe(self): Transcribe self.value in UTF-16 with a terminating NUL.

Method BinaryUTF16NUL.transcribe_value(value, encoding='utf-16'): Transcribe value in UTF-16 with a terminating NUL.

Class BinaryUTF8NUL(BinarySingleValue)

A NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

Method BinaryUTF8NUL.parse_value(bfr): Read a NUL terminated UTF-8 string from bfr, return field.

Method BinaryUTF8NUL.transcribe_value(s): Transcribe the value in UTF-8 with a terminating NUL.

Class BSData(BinarySingleValue)

A run length encoded data chunk, with the length encoded as a BSUInt.

Property BSData.data: An alias for the .value attribute.

Property BSData.data_offset: The length of the length indicator, useful for computing the location of the raw data.

Method BSData.data_offset_for(bs): Compute the data_offset which would obtain for the bytes bs.

Method BSData.parse_value(bfr): Parse the data from bfr.

Method BSData.transcribe_value(data): Transcribe the payload length and then the payload.

Class BSSFloat(BinarySingleValue)

A float transcribed as a BSString of str(float).

Method BSSFloat.parse_value(bfr): Parse a BSSFloat from a buffer and return the float.

Method BSSFloat.transcribe_value(f): Transcribe a float.

Class BSString(BinarySingleValue)

A run length encoded string, with the length encoded as a BSUInt.

Method BSString.parse_value(bfr, encoding='utf-8', errors='strict'): Parse a run length encoded string from bfr.

Method BSString.transcribe_value(value: str, encoding='utf-8'): Transcribe a string.

Class BSUInt(BinarySingleValue)

A binary serialised unsigned int.

This uses a big endian byte encoding where continuation octets have their high bit set. The bits contributing to the value are in the low order 7 bits.

Method BSUInt.decode_bytes(data, offset=0): Decode an extensible byte serialised unsigned int from data at offset. Return value and new offset.

Continuation octets have their high bit set. The octets are big-endian.

If you just have a bytes instance, this is the go. If you're reading from a stream you're better off with parse or parse_value.

Examples:

>>> BSUInt.decode_bytes(b'\0')
(0, 1)

Note: there is of course the usual BinaryMixin.parse_bytes but that constructs a buffer to obtain the individual bytes; this static method will be more performant if all you are doing is reading this serialisation and do not already have a buffer.

Method BSUInt.parse_value(bfr): Parse an extensible byte serialised unsigned int from a buffer.

Continuation octets have their high bit set. The value is big-endian.

This is the go for reading from a stream. If you already have a bare bytes instance then the .decode_bytes static method is probably most efficient; there is of course the usual BinaryMixin.parse_bytes but that constructs a buffer to obtain the individual bytes.

Method BSUInt.transcribe_value(n): Encode an unsigned int as an entensible byte serialised octet sequence for decode. Return the bytes object.

Function flatten(chunks)

Flatten chunks into an iterable of bytes instances.

This exists to allow subclass methods to easily return transcribeable things (having a .transcribe method), ASCII strings or bytes or iterables or even None, in turn allowing them simply to return their superclass' chunks iterators directly instead of having to unpack them.

An example from the cs.iso14496.METABoxBody class:

def transcribe(self):
    yield super().transcribe()
    yield self.theHandler
    yield self.boxes

The binary classes flatten the result of the .transcribe method to obtain bytes insteances for the object's bnary transcription.

Class Float64BE(Float64BE, AbstractBinary)

An AbstractBinary namedtuple which parses and transcribes the struct format '>d' and presents the attributes ('value',).

Method Float64BE.parse(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer): Parse from bfr via struct.unpack.

Method Float64BE.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr, return the value.

Method Float64BE.transcribe(self): Transcribe via struct.pack.

Method Float64BE.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe a value back into bytes.

Class Float64LE(Float64LE, AbstractBinary)

An AbstractBinary namedtuple which parses and transcribes the struct format '<d' and presents the attributes ('value',).

Method Float64LE.parse(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer): Parse from bfr via struct.unpack.

Method Float64LE.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr, return the value.

Method Float64LE.transcribe(self): Transcribe via struct.pack.

Method Float64LE.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe a value back into bytes.

Class Int16BE(Int16BE, AbstractBinary)

An AbstractBinary namedtuple which parses and transcribes the struct format '>h' and presents the attributes ('value',).

Method Int16BE.parse(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer): Parse from bfr via struct.unpack.

Method Int16BE.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr, return the value.

Method Int16BE.transcribe(self): Transcribe via struct.pack.

Method Int16BE.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe a value back into bytes.

Class Int16LE(Int16LE, AbstractBinary)

An AbstractBinary namedtuple which parses and transcribes the struct format '<h' and presents the attributes ('value',).

Method Int16LE.parse(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer): Parse from bfr via struct.unpack.

Method Int16LE.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr, return the value.

Method Int16LE.transcribe(self): Transcribe via struct.pack.

Method Int16LE.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe a value back into bytes.

Class Int32BE(Int32BE, AbstractBinary)

An AbstractBinary namedtuple which parses and transcribes the struct format '>l' and presents the attributes ('value',).

Method Int32BE.parse(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer): Parse from bfr via struct.unpack.

Method Int32BE.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr, return the value.

Method Int32BE.transcribe(self): Transcribe via struct.pack.

Method Int32BE.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe a value back into bytes.

Class Int32LE(Int32LE, AbstractBinary)

An AbstractBinary namedtuple which parses and transcribes the struct format '<l' and presents the attributes ('value',).

Method Int32LE.parse(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer): Parse from bfr via struct.unpack.

Method Int32LE.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr, return the value.

Method Int32LE.transcribe(self): Transcribe via struct.pack.

Method Int32LE.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe a value back into bytes.

Function pt_spec(pt, name=None)

Convert a parse/transcribe specification pt into an AbstractBinary subclass.

This is largely used to provide flexibility in the specifications for the BinaryMultiValue factory but can be used as a factory for other simple classes.

If the specification pt is a subclass of AbstractBinary this is returned directly.

If pt is a 2-tuple of str the values are presumed to be a format string for struct.struct and filed names separated by spaces; a new BinaryMultiStruct class is created from these and returned.

Otherwise two functions f_parse_value(bfr) and f_transcribe_value(value) are obtained and used to construct a new BinarySingleValue class as follows:

If pt has .parse_value and .transcribe_value callable attributes, use those for f_parse_value and f_transcribe_value respectively.

Otherwise, if pt is an int define f_parse_value to obtain exactly that many bytes from a buffer and f_transcribe_value to return those bytes directly.

Otherwise presume pt is a 2-tuple of (f_parse_value,f_transcribe_value).

Class SimpleBinary(types.SimpleNamespace, AbstractBinary)

Abstract binary class based on a SimpleNamespace, thus providing a nice __str__ and a keyword based __init__. Implementors must still define .parse and .transcribe.

To constrain the arguments passed to __init__, define an __init__ which accepts specific keyword arguments and pass through to super().__init__(). Example:

def __init__(self, *, field1=None, field2):
    """ Accept only `field1` (optional)
        and `field2` (mandatory).
    """
    super().__init__(field1=field1, field2=field2)

Class UInt16BE(UInt16BE, AbstractBinary)

An AbstractBinary namedtuple which parses and transcribes the struct format '>H' and presents the attributes ('value',).

Method UInt16BE.parse(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer): Parse from bfr via struct.unpack.

Method UInt16BE.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr, return the value.

Method UInt16BE.transcribe(self): Transcribe via struct.pack.

Method UInt16BE.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe a value back into bytes.

Class UInt16LE(UInt16LE, AbstractBinary)

An AbstractBinary namedtuple which parses and transcribes the struct format '<H' and presents the attributes ('value',).

Method UInt16LE.parse(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer): Parse from bfr via struct.unpack.

Method UInt16LE.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr, return the value.

Method UInt16LE.transcribe(self): Transcribe via struct.pack.

Method UInt16LE.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe a value back into bytes.

Class UInt32BE(UInt32BE, AbstractBinary)

An AbstractBinary namedtuple which parses and transcribes the struct format '>L' and presents the attributes ('value',).

Method UInt32BE.parse(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer): Parse from bfr via struct.unpack.

Method UInt32BE.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr, return the value.

Method UInt32BE.transcribe(self): Transcribe via struct.pack.

Method UInt32BE.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe a value back into bytes.

Class UInt32LE(UInt32LE, AbstractBinary)

An AbstractBinary namedtuple which parses and transcribes the struct format '<L' and presents the attributes ('value',).

Method UInt32LE.parse(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer): Parse from bfr via struct.unpack.

Method UInt32LE.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr, return the value.

Method UInt32LE.transcribe(self): Transcribe via struct.pack.

Method UInt32LE.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe a value back into bytes.

Class UInt64BE(UInt64BE, AbstractBinary)

An AbstractBinary namedtuple which parses and transcribes the struct format '>Q' and presents the attributes ('value',).

Method UInt64BE.parse(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer): Parse from bfr via struct.unpack.

Method UInt64BE.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr, return the value.

Method UInt64BE.transcribe(self): Transcribe via struct.pack.

Method UInt64BE.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe a value back into bytes.

Class UInt64LE(UInt64LE, AbstractBinary)

An AbstractBinary namedtuple which parses and transcribes the struct format '<Q' and presents the attributes ('value',).

Method UInt64LE.parse(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer): Parse from bfr via struct.unpack.

Method UInt64LE.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr, return the value.

Method UInt64LE.transcribe(self): Transcribe via struct.pack.

Method UInt64LE.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe a value back into bytes.

Class UInt8(UInt8, AbstractBinary)

An AbstractBinary namedtuple which parses and transcribes the struct format 'B' and presents the attributes ('value',).

Method UInt8.parse(bfr: cs.buffer.CornuCopyBuffer): Parse from bfr via struct.unpack.

Method UInt8.parse_value(bfr): Parse a value from bfr, return the value.

Method UInt8.transcribe(self): Transcribe via struct.pack.

Method UInt8.transcribe_value(value): Transcribe a value back into bytes.

Release Log

Release 20240422: New _BinaryMultiValue_Base.for_json() method returning a dict containing the fields.

Release 20240316: Fixed release upload artifacts.

Release 20240201: BREAKING CHANGE: drop the long deprecated PacketField related classes.

Release 20231129: BinaryMultiStruct.parse: promote the buffer arguments to a CornuCopyBuffer.

Release 20230401:

• BinaryMixin.scan: bfr parameter may be any object acceptable to CornuCopyBuffer.promote.
• BinaryMixin.scan: accept new optional with_offsets parameter; deprecate scan_with_offsets and scan_fspathi in favour of scan.

Release 20230212:

• BinaryMixin: new load(file) and save(file) methods.
• BinaryMixin.scan: promote the bfr argument.

Release 20221206: Documentation fix.

Release 20220605: BinaryMixin: replace scan_file with scan_fspath, as the former left uncertainty about the amount of the file consumed.

Release 20210316:

• BSUInt: rename parse_bytes to decode_bytes, the former name conflicted with BinaryMixin.parse_bytes and broken the semantics.
• Minor refactors.

Release 20210306: MAJOR RELEASE: The PacketField classes and friends were hard to use; this release supplied a suite of easier to use and more consistent Binary* classes, and ports most of those things based on the old scheme to the new scheme.

Release 20200229:

• ListField: replace transcribe method with transcribe_value method, aids external use.
• Add .length attribute to struct based packet classes providing the data length of the structure (struct.Struct.size).
• Packet: new add_deferred_field method to consume the raw data for a field for parsing later (done automatically if the attribute is accessed).
• New @deferred_field decorator for the parser for that stashed data.

Release 20191230.3: Docstring tweak.

Release 20191230.2: Documentation updates.

Release 20191230.1: Docstring updates. Semantic changes were in the previous release.

Release 20191230:

• ListField: new iter method.
• Packet: str: accept optional skip_fields parameter to omit some field names.
• Packet: new .add_from_value method to add a named field with a presupplied value.
• Packet: new remove_field(field_name) and pop_field() methods to remove fields.
• BytesesField: iter yields the bytes values, transcribe=iter.
• PacketField: propagate keyword arguments through various methods, required for parameterised PacketFields.
• New UTF16NULField, a NUL terminated UTF16 string.
• PacketField: provide a default .transcribe_value method which makes a new instance and calls its .transcribe method.
• Documentation update and several minor changes.

Release 20190220:

• Packet.self_check: fields without a sanity check cause a warning, not a ValueError.
• New Float64BE, Float64LE and BSSFloat classes for IEEE floats and floats-as-strings.
• Additional module docstringage on subclassing Packet and PacketField.
• BSString: drop redundant from_buffer class method.
• PacketField.init: default to value=None if omitted.

Release 20181231: flatten: do not yield zero length bytelike objects, can be misread as EOF on some streams.

Release 20181108:

• New PacketField.transcribe_value_flat convenience method to return a flat iterable of bytes-like objects.
• New PacketField.parse_buffer generator method to parse instances of the PacketField from a buffer until end of input.
• New PacketField.parse_buffer_values generator method to parse instances of the PacketField from a buffer and yield the .value attribute until end of input.

Release 20180823:

• Some bugfixes.
• Define PacketField.eq.
• BSUInt, BSData and BSString classes implementing the serialisations from cs.serialise.
• New PacketField.value_from_bytes class method.
• New PacketField.value_from_buffer method.

Release 20180810.2: Documentation improvements.

Release 20180810.1: Improve module description.

Release 20180810: BytesesField.from_buffer: make use of the buffer's skipto method if discard_data is true.

Release 20180805:

• Packet: now an abstract class, new self_check method initially checking the
• PACKET_FIELDS class attribute against the instance, new methods get_field
• and set_field to fetch or replace existing fields, allow keyword arguments
• to initialise the Packet fields and document the dependency on keyword
• argument ordering.
• PacketField: len computed directory from a transcribe, drop other len
• methods.
• EmptyField singleton to use as a placeholder for missing optional fields.
• BytesField: implement value_s and from_buffer.
• multi_struct_field: implement len for generated class.
• flatten: treat memoryviews like bytes.
• Assorted docstrings and fixes.

Release 20180801: Initial PyPI release.