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KonFoo is a Python library for de-serializing byte streams. KonFoo helps you to deserialize a byte stream retrievable through a byte stream provider to any kind of data source into a meaningful representation by just declaring how the different parts of a byte stream should be represented, respectively mapped to fields.
You can store the representation as an .ini file to analyse the byte stream data.
The built-in deserialize hook deserialize(buffer, index, ...) available for all Container and Field classes allows you to adapt even expand or declare the representation during the de-serialization process on the fly.
The built-in deserializer provided by the Pointer class (called through the read_from(provider, ...) method) is able to follow even nested absolute or relative pointers to retrieve the byte stream from the byte stream provider necessary for its referenced data object and to de-serialize (map) it.
After de-serializing the byte stream provided by the byte stream provider the built-in serializer provided also by the pointer class (called through the write_to(provider, member, ...) method) is able to transfer the manipulated values of any container or field in the representation back to the byte stream provider to write it into its data source.