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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python Enhance your ethical hacking skills to build automated and intelligent systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788990820
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Furqan Khan Furqan Khan
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Preface 1. Introduction to Python 2. Building Python Scripts FREE CHAPTER 3. Concept Handling 4. Advanced Python Modules 5. Vulnerability Scanner Python - Part 1 6. Vulnerability Scanner Python - Part 2 7. Machine Learning and Cybersecurity 8. Automating Web Application Scanning - Part 1 9. Automated Web Application Scanning - Part 2 10. Building a Custom Crawler 11. Reverse Engineering Linux Applications 12. Reverse Engineering Windows Applications 13. Exploit Development 14. Cyber Threat Intelligence 15. Other Wonders of Python 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Data manipulation and parsing with XML, JSON, and CSV data

In this section, we will first look at how we can manipulate XML data in Python followed by how we can manipulate JSON data. After that, we will look at the pandas Python utility with a focus on CSV.

XML data manipulation

In this section, we will look at how can we manipulate XML data in Python. While there are many ways to parse XML documents in Python, the simple and the most widely used method is using the XML.etree module. Let's see the following example, which will illustrate how easy and simple it is to parse XML documents and strings in Python. Create a script called xml_parser.py. We will use an XML document called exmployees.xml:

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