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

Documentation is available at https://nclib.readthedocs.io/ and 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.