As a note, this script will be designed to work only in Python 3 and was tested with Python 3.7.1. If you'd like the Python 2 version of the code after working through this section, please see https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learning-Python-for-Forensics for the prior iteration.
In the first iteration of the script, we use several standard libraries to complete all of the functionality required for the full operation. Like we did in prior scripts, we are implementing argparse, csv, and logging for their usual purposes, which include argument handling, writing CSV reports, and logging program execution. For logging, we define our log handler, logger, on line 43. We have imported the sqlite3 module to handle all database operations. Unlike our next iteration, we will only support SQLite databases through...
