Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: hexformat
Version: 0.1
Summary: Library for popular HEX-formats like IntelHex and SRecord
Home-page: https://bitbucket.org/martin_scharrer/hexformat
Author: Martin Scharrer
Author-email: martin@scharrer-online.de
License: GPL v3+
Download-URL: https://bitbucket.org/martin_scharrer/hexformat/downloads/
Description: About
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        The **hexformat** Python package allows the processing of several HEX data formats.
        Supported formats are the Intel-Hex format, the Motorola S-Record_ format as well as the simple `hex dump`_ format.
        The first two are often used for programming microcontrollers while the last is often used to display binary data in a user readable way.
        
        Files in the mentioned format can be created, modified (e.g. set, delete and fill data) and read from or written to files.
        A base class `MultiPartBuffer` is provided which implements the handling of multiple data parts where every part is identified by its corresponding start address.
        This base class allows for the basic operations like reading and writing binary files as well as modifing the binary data.
        The specific classes `IntelHex`, `SRecord` and `HexDump` are derivated from it which implement the parsing and generating of the corresponding HEX formats as well as implementing file format specific features.
        
        .. _Intel-Hex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_HEX
        .. _S-Record: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SREC_%28file_format%29
        .. _`hex dump`: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex_dump
        
        Motivation
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        This package was mainly created to replace the srecord_ command line tool and its complicated interface with a clean python interface for use with handling microcontroller HEX files.
        The existing Python library intelhex_ was used for a while, but then the need for the S-Record format appeared.
        Also *intelhex.IntelHex* did not provide a suitable interface for the most often used operations.
        
        .. _srecord: http://srecord.sourceforge.net/
        .. _intelhex: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/IntelHex
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3 or later (GPLv3+)
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Information Technology
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Embedded Systems
Classifier: Topic :: Utilities
