Extracting bytecode out of frozen programs

[David Kraeutmann]

Hello,
I need to extract the modules/packages out of a frozen script. It was
compiled using Python 2.2.3 and the standard freeze.py.
I managed to get a shell after execution using PYTHONINSPECT=y and find
the start of a module/package using a hex editor (I got the sta, but
these modules don't seem to be importable.
Is there a way of extracting them so they are importable in a python shell?

Regards,
David Kraeutmann

 

[Martin v. Löwis]

Is there a way of extracting them so they are importable in a python shell?

Try imp.get_frozen_object.

Regards,
Martin

 

[Gabriel Genellina]

Try imp.get_frozen_object.

Ouch... this looks better than using ctypes.
get_frozen_object exists at least since 1.5.2, but has never been
documented, and the source code says it's obsolete. Should be documented
now? Any alternative?

 

[Martin v. Löwis]

get_frozen_object exists at least since 1.5.2, but has never been

documented, and the source code says it's obsolete. Should be documented
now? Any alternative?

get_frozen_object has been marked obsolete in 1997. Whether it can be
un-deprecated should be discussed on python-dev; I can't guess the
rationale for deprecating it.

Regards,
Martin