binaryreader

binaryreader

binaryreader is a faster and more elegant alternative to struct for parsing binary data in Python.

Example

from binaryreader import BinaryReader

data: bytes|bytearray
read_little_endian: bool = True
reader = BinaryReader(data, read_little_endian)

text = reader.readStringC()

Benchmark

TODO

Documentation

Notes:

• kwargs won't be accepted, only args are useable
• all readArray functions accept a langth as optional argument
• bytes can be read by using readUInt8Array

Init

• BinaryReader(data: bytes|bytearray, is_little_endian: bool)

Properties

• .endian: bool[get,set] - endianness of the reader (True - little, False - big)
• .position: int[get,set] - position of the cursor within the data
• .size: int[get] - size of underlying/passed object
• .obj: bytes|bytearray[get] - underlying/passed object

Functions

• .readBool(): bool - reads a bool
• .readInt8(): int - reads an int8
• .readUInt8(): int - reads an uint8
• .readInt16(): int - reads an int16
• .readUInt16(): int - reads an uint16
• .readInt32(): int - reads an int32
• .readUInt32(): int - reads an uint32
• .readInt64(): int - reads an int64
• .readUInt64(): int - reads an uint64
• .readHalf(): float - reads a half
• .readFloat(): float - reads a float
• .readDouble(): float - reads a double
• .readBoolArray(): [bool] - reads a bool array
• .readInt8Array(): [int] - reads a array of int8
• .readUInt8Array(): bytearray - reads a array of uint8
• .readInt16Array(): [int] - reads a array of int16
• .readUInt16Array(): [int] - reads a array of uint16
• .readInt32Array(): [int] - reads a array of int32
• .readUInt32Array(): [int] - reads a array of uint32
• .readInt64Array(): [int] - reads a array of int64
• .readUInt64Array(): [int] - reads a array of uint64
• .readHalfArray(): [float] - reads a array of half
• .readFloatArray(): [float] - reads a array of float
• .readDoubleArray(): [float] - reads a array of double
• .readStringC(): str - reads a null terminated string
• .readStringCArray(): [str] - reads an array of null terminated strings
• .readString(): str - reads a string (if length is not passed as arg, read an int as length)
• .readStringArray(): [str] - reads an array of strings
• .readStringAligned(): str - same as readString but aligned to 4 bytes after reading the string
• .readStringAlignedArray(): [str] - reads an array of aligned strings
• .align(align_by: int): int - aligns the cursor to the given input and returns the position after the alignment
• .readVarInt(): int - reads a varint
• .readLSB(): bytearray - reads the lsb data of the given size (in bytes to read -> output length is 1/8 of that)