Mastering Python Forensics

Introduction to Python ctypes

According to the official Python documentation, ctypes is a foreign function library that provides C compatible data types and allows calling functions in DLLs or shared libraries. A foreign function library means that the Python code can call C functions using only Python, without requiring special or custom-made extensions.

This module is one of the most powerful libraries available to the Python developer. The ctypes library enables you to not only call functions in dynamically linked libraries (as described earlier), but can also be used for low-level memory manipulation. It is important that you understand the basics of how to use the ctypes library as it will be used for many examples and real-world cases throughout ...