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Python for Secret Agents - Volume II - Second Edition

By : Steven F. Lott, Steven F. Lott
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Python for Secret Agents - Volume II - Second Edition

By: Steven F. Lott, Steven F. Lott

Overview of this book

Python is easy to learn and extensible programming language that allows any manner of secret agent to work with a variety of data. Agents from beginners to seasoned veterans will benefit from Python's simplicity and sophistication. The standard library provides numerous packages that move beyond simple beginner missions. The Python ecosystem of related packages and libraries supports deep information processing. This book will guide you through the process of upgrading your Python-based toolset for intelligence gathering, analysis, and communication. You'll explore the ways Python is used to analyze web logs to discover the trails of activities that can be found in web and database servers. We'll also look at how we can use Python to discover details of the social network by looking at the data available from social networking websites. Finally, you'll see how to extract history from PDF files, which opens up new sources of data, and you’ll learn about the ways you can gather data using an Arduino-based sensor device.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Python for Secret Agents Volume II
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Doing other upgrades


When we upgrade to Python 3.4, we often need to upgrade the packages that we had previously been working with in the older versions of Python. We find that we often need to remind the field agents that software upgrades may be boring and mundane work; however, every mission is built on a foundation of software in order to process the intelligence data.

It's important to be sure that we can process graphics and images. That means we'll need a copy of Pillow, a project that maintains the Python Imaging Library.

Here's how this upgrade will look:

MacBookPro-SLott:doc slott$ pip3.4 install pillow
Collecting pillow
  Downloading Pillow-2.9.0-cp34-cp34m-macosx_10_6_intel.macosx_10_9_intel.macosx_10_9_x86_64.macosx_10_10_intel.macosx_10_10_x86_64.whl (2.9MB)
    100% |████████████████████████████████| 2.9MB 178kB/s 
Installing collected packages: pillow
Successfully installed pillow-2.9.0

This means that we can continue to process graphics successfully. For more information on Pillow, refer to Python for Secret Agents 1st Edition.

Also, refer to https://python-pillow.github.io and http://pillow.readthedocs.org.

We'll start using this package in Chapter 3, Following the Social Network.