I'm sure this is terribly wrong, and I'm having a couple of problems. I've written out an array of WIN32_FIND_DATAW structures to disk, one after another, and I'd like to consume and parse them in my Python script.
The code I'm currently using is:
>>> fp = open('findData', 'r').read()
>>> data = ctypes.cast(fp, ctypes.POINTER(wintypes.WIN32_FIND_DATAW))
>>> print str(data[0].cFileName)
The first problem is that the third line doesn't print a nice string like I would expect. Instead of printing $Recycle.Bin it prints UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-5: ordinal not in range(128)
This is the result of just printing the data stored there:
>>> data[0].cFileName
u'\U00520024\U00630065\U00630079\U0065006c\U0042002e\U006e0069'
This looks relatively reasonable. $ is ASCII 0x24, R is ASCII 0x52 and so on.
So why can't I print it like a string?
My second question is that doing:
>>> data[1].cFileName
Gives me ridiculous data. I'm fairly sure I'm not using that ctypes.cast correctly. How should I be doing it to access these? To clarify, in C, I'd just point a PWIN32_FIND_DATAW pointer to the beginning of the buffer and access the individual structs in the array using similar code, and I'm trying to do the same in Python.
Update
Doing:
>>> data[0].cFileName.encode('windows-1252')
Yields this error:
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 0-5: character maps to
Update
The beginning of the first entry (data[0] up to the first part of cFileName) looks like the following:
user@ubuntu:~/data$ hexdump -C findData | head -n 6
00000000 16 00 00 00 dc 5a 9f d2 31 04 ca 01 ba 81 89 1a |.....Z..1.......|
00000010 81 e2 cd 01 ba 81 89 1a 81 e2 cd 01 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 24 00 52 00 |............$.R.|
00000030 65 00 63 00 79 00 63 00 6c 00 65 00 2e 00 42 00 |e.c.y.c.l.e...B.|
00000040 69 00 6e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |i.n.............|
00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
I can post more data if needed.
解决方案
As already mentioned in the comments, this is due to differences between windows and linux. The ctypes module tries to fit into the local environment, hence the mismatch. The best solution is to use the struct module to handle it in a platform independent manner. The following code shows how this can be done for a single record.
# Setup test data based on incomplete sample
bytes = "\x16\x00\x00\x00\xdc\x5a\x9f\xd2\x31\x04\xca\x01\xba\x81\x89\x1a\x81\xe2\xcd\x01\xba\x81\x89\x1a\x81\xe2\xcd\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x24\x00\x52\x00\x65\x00\x63\x00\x79\x00\x63\x00\x6c\x00\x65\x00\x2e\x00\x42\x00\x69\x00\x6e\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00"
bytes = bytes + "\x00"*(592-len(bytes))
import struct
import codecs
# typedef struct _WIN32_FIND_DATA {
# DWORD dwFileAttributes;
# FILETIME ftCreationTime;
# FILETIME ftLastAccessTime;
# FILETIME ftLastWriteTime;
# DWORD nFileSizeHigh;
# DWORD nFileSizeLow;
# DWORD dwReserved0;
# DWORD dwReserved1;
# TCHAR cFileName[MAX_PATH];
# TCHAR cAlternateFileName[14];
fmt = "
attrs, creation, access, write, sizeHigh, sizeLow, reserved0, reserved1, name, alternateName = struct.unpack(fmt, bytes)
name = codecs.utf_16_le_decode(name)[0].strip('\x00')
alternateName = codecs.utf_16_le_decode(alternateName)[0].strip('\x00')
print name
NOTE: This assumes that the size of MAX_PATH is 260 (which should be true, but you never know).
To read all values from the file you need to read blocks of 592 bytes at a time and then decode it as above.