[pywin32-bugs] [ pywin32-Feature Requests-1501429 ] would like to have ReadProcessMemory

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Feature Requests item #1501429, was opened at 2006-06-06 02:03
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Category: win32
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Jason Currey (jpcurrey)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: would like to have ReadProcessMemory

Initial Comment:
would like to see ReadProcessMemory added to the api.


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Comment By: Valhalla (valhallaknight)
Date: 2008-07-21 00:43

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Yes, that would be great !

And of course other process manipulation APIs like OpenProcess etc would
be great !

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Comment By: Andrew Barnert (barnert)
Date: 2007-11-10 07:48

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Until this is done, you can use ctypes to access these functions. I've
written a little game-cheat program in Python that does exactly that, and
it includes a module that wraps ReadProcessMemory and friends in a nice
Process class. 

Here's a stripped-down version of the key functions:

import ctypes
kernel = ctypes.windll.kernel32

class Process(object):
  def __init__(self, pid):
    self.pid = pid
    self.h = kernel.OpenProcess(0x0018, 0, pid)
  def close(self):
    if (self.h):
      kernel.CloseHandle(self.h)
    self.h = None
  def __del__(self):
    self.close()
  def read(self, addr, size):
    buf = ctypes.create_string_buffer(size)
    bytesread = ctypes.c_size_t()
    kernel.ReadProcessMemory(self.h, addr, buf,
                             ctypes.c_size_t(size),
                             ctypes.addressof(bytesread))
    return buf[:bytesread.value]

You can also use win32api for most of the work and only use ctypes for the
missing functions. For example, if you used the win32api.OpenProcess
function, h would be a PyHANDLE, so you'd have to pass self.h.handle to
ReadProcessMemory.


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Comment By: Jason Currey (jpcurrey)
Date: 2006-06-06 02:21

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I guess also WriteProcessMemory would also be helpful. 
I notice these functions are in the perl equivalent.

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