Python development

libmsiecf comes with Python-bindings named pymsiecf.

Below are examples how use pymsiecf. They assume you have a working version of pymsiecf on your system. To build pymsiecf see Building.

Import

To be able to use pymsiecf in your Python scripts add the following import:

import pymsiecf

Get version

The get_version() module function can be used to retrieve the version of the pymsiecf.

pymsiecf.get_version()

This will return a textual string (Unicode) that contains the libmsiecf version. Since pymsiecf is a wrapper around libmsiecf it does not have a separate version.

Open file

Open a file by path

msiecf_file = pymsiecf.file()

msiecf_file.open("index.dat")

...

msiecf_file.close()

The explicit call to msiecf_file.close() is not required. Close only must be called once all operations on the file have been completed.

Open a file using a file-like object

file_object = open("index.dat", "rb")

msiecf_file = pymsiecf.file()

msiecf_file.open_file_object(file_object)

...

msiecf_file.close()

The explicit call to msiecf_file.close() is not required. Close only must be called once all operations on the file have been completed and will not close the file-like object itself.

Also see

import pymsiecf

help(pymsiecf)
help(pymsiecf.file)