Mastering Python Forensics

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Note that in the case of Windows, msvcrt is the MS standard C library containing most of the standard C functions and uses the cdecl calling convention (on Linux systems, the similar library would be libc.so.6)."

A block of code is set as follows:

def multi_hash(filename): """Calculates the md5 and sha256 hashes of the specified file and returns a list containing the hash sums as hex strings.""" ...