With a functioning prototype, we now have some cleanup work to do. The first iteration was a proof of concept to illustrate how a setupapi.dev.log file can be parsed for forensic artifacts. With our second revision, we will clean up and restructure the code so that it will be easier to use in the future. In addition, we will integrate a more robust command-line interface, validate any user-supplied inputs, improve processing efficiency, and display any results in a better format.
On lines 2 through 6, we import the libraries that we will need for these improvements, alongside familiar cross-version support libraries. argparse is a library that we discussed at length in Chapter 2, Python Fundamentals, and is used to implement and structure arguments from the user. Next, we import os, a library we will use in this script to check...
