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Learning Python for Forensics

You're reading from   Learning Python for Forensics Leverage the power of Python in forensic investigations

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341690
Length 476 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preston Miller Preston Miller
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Now for Something Completely Different FREE CHAPTER 2. Python Fundamentals 3. Parsing Text Files 4. Working with Serialized Data Structures 5. Databases in Python 6. Extracting Artifacts from Binary Files 7. Fuzzy Hashing 8. The Media Age 9. Uncovering Time 10. Rapidly Triaging Systems 11. Parsing Outlook PST Containers 12. Recovering Transient Database Records 13. Coming Full Circle 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using a GUI

In this chapter, we'll use a GUI to convert timestamps between raw and human-readable formats. Timestamp conversion is a useful excuse to explore programming GUIs as it offers a solution to a common investigative activity. By using a GUI, we greatly increase the usability of our script among those deterred by the Command Prompt, with all of its arguments and switches.

There are many options for GUI development in Python, though, in this chapter, we'll focus on TkInter. The TkInter library is a cross-platform GUI development library for Python that hooks into the operating system's Tcl/Tk library found on Windows, macOS, and several Linux platforms.

This cross-platform framework allows us to build a common interface that's platform-independent. Although TkInter GUIs may not look the most modern, they allow us to rapidly build a functional interface...

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