nclib

nclib is a python socket library that wants to be your friend.

nclib provides:

• Easy-to-use interfaces for connecting to and listening on TCP and UDP sockets

• The ability to handle any python stream-like object with a single interface

• A better socket class, the Netcat object

  • Convenient receive methods for common socket usage patterns

  • Highly customizable logging

  • Interactive mode, connecting the socket to your stdin/stdout

  • Intelligent detection of socket closes and connection drops

  • Long-running functions cleanly abortable with ctrl-c

  • Lots of aliases in case you forget the right method name

• Mechanisms to launch processes with their in/out streams connected to sockets

  • Launch a process with gdb attached

• TCP and UDP server classes for writing simple python daemons

• A script to easily daemonize command-line programs

Source code is available at https://github.com/rhelmot/nclib.

If you are familiar with pwntools, nclib provides much of the functionaly that pwntools’ socket wrappers do, but with the bonus feature of not being pwntools.

To install nclib, run pip install nclib.

Contents:

• Basic socket interfaces
  • Netcat
  • select()
  • merge()
  • ferry()
  • NetcatError
  • NetcatEOF
  • NetcatTimeout
• Servers
  • TCPServer
  • UDPServer
• Launching and Controlling Processes
  • Process
  • GDBProcess
• Logging Facilities
  • Logger
  • StandardLogger
  • TeeLogger
  • ManyLogger
• Low-level socket abstraction layer
  • Simple
  • wrap()
  • SimpleSocket
  • SimpleFile
  • SimpleDuplex
  • SimpleMerge
  • SimpleNetcat
  • SimpleLogger
• Daemonizing Command Line Programs

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page