Binary protocol parser
Project description
Dumpy
Dumpy is a binary parser with a declarative syntax. All you need to do is telling the framework what your data look like, and let Dumpy do the rest.
Dumpy supports python versions >= 3.0.
Installing
Just use pip or tools alike:
pip install dumpy
Usage
To parse a pre-defined binary structure, you need to define a class for that structure. For example, a class for pascal strings :
import dumpy.types as dt class PString(dict, metaclass=dt.DumpyMeta): __field_specs__ = ( dt.field('len', dt.UInt8, default=dt.count_of('data')), dt.field('data', dt.UInt8, count=dt.counted_by('len')), ) s = PString() s['data'] = b'\x01\x02\x03\x04' # The length field is calculated automatically. assert s['len'] == 4 assert s.pack() == b'\x04\x01\x02\x03\x04' s2 = s.unpack(s.pack()) assert s2['len'] == 4 assert bytes(s2['data']) == b'\x01\x02\x03\x04'
See demo/png_packer.py for a real-world format parser.
Known Issues
- The type checking and conversion code in Dumpy is kind of naive, It does not check element types in a sequence.
- Dumpy is very slow at current stage. You may not want to use it to parse network messages or huge data structures.
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