Question

I was looking for a way to list .text section defined symbols on a C shared object loaded on a python program using the ctypes wrapper. In other words, i am trying to get a list of defined functions on a CDLL loaded object.

If there is no way to do this with ctypes or library ( or python binding ), another option is a python elf parsing library or a solution like http://halflifelibrary.com/wiki/Metamod-P.

Any way to do this ?

Answer 1

FYI there is no way to get a list of defined methods on a shared object loaded using ctypes because there is no meta information on the object structure.

If you need a platform specific object parser maybe you should take a look at http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/wiki/MicrosoftToolchainSupport using the objdump routines to get defined function references on the text section.

My option do this is to write a small parser using a ELF parser library like Hachoir or the Pydevtools in order to introspect the object.