Mastering Python for Networking and Security

Using python-nmap

Now, you can import the python-nmap module that we can invoke from our scripts, or from the interactive terminal, for example:

Once we have verified the module installation, we can start to perform scans on a specific host. For this, we must do an instantiation of the PortScanner() class, so we can access the most important method: scan(). A good practice to understand how a function, method, or object works is to use the help() or dir() functions to find out the methods available in a module:

If we execute a help (port_scan.scan) ...