Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Python wrappers for pcapio.[ch]

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:55:42 -0700

On Jul 10, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Shehjar Tikoo wrote:

Does anyone know of Python bindings for the pcapio.[ch] code in
Wireshark source root?

I am looking for Python wrappers for writing pcap files and I havent
been able to find a library that does it or does it cleanly.

Shehjar
PS: I ask because I intend to use pcapio.c to create a wrapper.

Why don't you use libpcap to create the wrapper, instead? (I.e., if you don't like the libpcap wrappers for Python that are out there, why not just do a better one?)

PS2: I've looked at both pcap, pylibpcap and pcapy modules for this
functionality.

pylibpcap and pcapy both appear to support writing pcap files, so presumably, if you haven't been able to find a library that does that or does it cleanly, neither of them do it cleanly. What's unclean about how they do it?