Source: hachoir-core
Section: python
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Michel Casabona <michel.casabona@free.fr>
Uploaders: Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>=9), python (>= 2.6.6-3~), cdbs (>= 0.4.90~), dh-python
Build-Depends-Indep: python-all
Standards-Version: 3.9.5
Homepage: http://bitbucket.org/haypo/hachoir/wiki/hachoir-core
X-Python-Version: >= 2.4
Vcs-Svn: svn://anonscm.debian.org/python-modules/packages/hachoir-core/trunk/
Vcs-Browser: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/python-modules/packages/hachoir-core/trunk/

Package: python-hachoir-core
Architecture: all
Depends: ${python:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
Suggests: python-hachoir-parser, python-hachoir-urwid, python-hachoir-metadata, python-profiler
Description: Core of Hachoir framework: parse and edit binary files
 Hachoir is a Python library used to represent of a binary file as a tree of
 Python objects. Each object has a type, a value, an address, etc. The goal is
 to be able to know the meaning of each bit in a file.
 .
 Why using slow Python code instead of fast hardcoded C code? Hachoir has many
 interesting features:
  * Autofix: Hachoir is able to open invalid / truncated files
  * Lazy: Open a file is very fast since no information is read from file,
    data are read and/or computed when the user ask for it
  * Types: Hachoir has many predefined field types (integer, bit, string, etc.)
    and supports string with charset (ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, UTF-16, ...)
  * Addresses and sizes are stored in bit, so flags are stored as classic fields
  * Endian: You have to set endian once, and then number are converted in the
    right endian
  * Editor: Using Hachoir representation of data, you can edit, insert, remove
    data and then save in a new file.