[Tutor] using while loop for read process memory

[Michael C]

thank for replying, but I am toast, so I'll reply tomorrow,
thanks!

On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 4:46 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org>
wrote:

> On 08/10/17 20:18, Michael C wrote:
> > This is the red part
> >   index = current_address
> >         end = current_address + mbi.RegionSize
> >
> >         while index < end:
> >             if ReadProcessMemory(Process, index, ctypes.byref(buffer), \
> >                                  ctypes.sizeof(buffer),
> > ctypes.byref(nread)):
> >                 ## value comparison to be implemented.
> >                 pass
> >             else:
> >                     raise ctypes.WinError(ctypes.get_last_error())
> >
> >             index += 1
>
> I haven't been following this closely so may be way off here,
> but does this mean you are incrementing the memory address
> by 1? If so you are only increasing the pointer by 1 byte
> but you are, presumably, reading multiple bytes at a time
> (the size of the buffer presumably).
>
> Do you perhaps need to treat the buffer as a byte array
> and use something like the struct module to decode it?
> (assuming you know what you are reading...?)
>
> But I may be way off, I'm just going on a cursory look.
>
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