Re: Ndiff minor modification

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:28:47PM -0600, Daniel Miller wrote:
> In ScanDiff.print_text, the kwarg f is used to define a file-like
> object to print to. One print statement escaped, however, and will
> print to sys.stdout no matter what. Patch below fixes this issue.

Thanks, applied.

> As a side note, here was my workaround for getting the text output
> into a variable:
> class FileVar(object):
>     string = u''
>     def write(self, line):
>         self.string += line
>     def readall(self):
>         return self.string
>
> out = FileVar()
> ndiff.ScanDiff(scan_a, scan_b).print_text( f=out )
> text = out.readall()

There's a built-in Python module that does that; see StringIO or
cStringIO.

David Fifield
_______________________________________________
Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list
http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/