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Re: ndiff syntax error
From: David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:42:17 -0600
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:02:15PM -0400, craig bowser wrote:
Hi all, been trying out nmap5 on XP and I've run into a problem for which I hope someone can either help or point me to a more appropriate place to get help. I ran several scans using the following syntax: nmap -v -sV -sC -O -iL <filename.txt> -oN nmap#.txt I realized that to run ndiff I needed Python so I installed Python 3.1.1. But I get errors when I try to run ndiff. First, out of the box so to speak, I got the following: C:\pstools\nmap5>ndiff nmap3.xml nmap4.xml File "C:\pstools\nmap5\ndiff.py", line 26 SyntaxError: Non-UTF-8 code starting with '\x92' in file C:\pstools\nmap5\ndiff. py on line 26, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263 / for details Line 26 is: NDIFF_XML_VERSION = uā1ā I'm not much of a programmer, but I have been trying to read "Learning Python" 3rd Ed, by Mark Lutz published by O'Reilly and according to that book, the syntax is correct. I tried changing it to NDIFF_XML_VERSION = u"1" as the book implied that the type of quote marks didn't matter, but I got the same error. I then tried commenting out that line. # NDIFF_XML_VERSION = uā1ā Oddly enough, I got the same error as before. I then changed the line to: NDIFF_XML_VERSION = u1.encode('utf-8') ran ndiff again and I got: C:\pstools\nmap5>ndiff nmap3.xml nmap4.xml File "C:\pstools\nmap5\ndiff.py", line 82 address_s = u", ".join(a.s for a in sorted(self.addresses)) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax Changing that line from: address_s = u", ".join(a.s for a in sorted(self.addresses)) to: address_s = u.join(a.s for a in sorted(self.addresses)) only gets me the following result: C:\pstools\nmap5>ndiff nmap3.xml nmap4.xml File "C:\pstools\nmap5\ndiff.py", line 87 return u"%s (%s)" % (hostname_s, address_s) ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax At this point, I'm thinking I must be doing something wrong from the beginning.... any ideas?
Thanks for writing. Ndiff requires Python 2.4, 2.5, or 2.6. Python 3 is not compatible with these versions. Ndiff could perhaps be made compatible with Python 3, but it hasn't been done yet. Try running it with the most recent version of Python 2.6. David Fifield _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev Archived at http://SecLists.Org
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