cxxfilt 0.2.1

Python interface to c++filt / abi::__cxa_demangle

Demangling C++ symbols in Python / interface to abi::__cxa_demangle

Usage

Install:

pip install cxxfilt

Use demangle to demangle a C++ mangled symbol name:

>>> import cxxfilt
>>> cxxfilt.demangle('_ZNSt22condition_variable_anyD2Ev')
'std::condition_variable_any::~condition_variable_any()'

Non-mangled name will be kept intact:

>>> cxxfilt.demangle('main')
'main'

To demangle an internal symbol, use external_only=False:

>>> cxxfilt.demangle('N3foo12BarExceptionE')
'N3foo12BarExceptionE'
>>> cxxfilt.demangle('N3foo12BarExceptionE', external_only=False)
'foo::BarException'

Invalid mangled names will trigger an InvalidName exception:

>>> cxxfilt.demangle('_ZQQ')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/path/to/python-cxxfilt/cxxfilt/__init__.py", line 77, in demangle
    return demangleb(mangled_name.encode()).decode()
  File "/path/to/python-cxxfilt/cxxfilt/__init__.py", line 69, in demangleb
    raise InvalidName(mangled_name)
cxxfilt.InvalidName: b'_ZQQ'

Use demangleb to demangle name in bytes:

>>> cxxfilt.demangleb(b'_ZNSt22condition_variable_anyD2Ev')
b'std::condition_variable_any::~condition_variable_any()'

Supported environments

Python 2.7 / 3.3+

Tested on Arch Linux and FreeBSD. Should work on unix systems with libc and libc++/libstdc++

Will not work on Windows.

Testing

run in shell:

pytest