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olefile

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Python package to parse, read and write Microsoft OLE2 files (Structured Storage or Compound Document, Microsoft Office)

Last release 3 years ago
no release in 18 months
Release timing varies
gaps range from 2 months to 3.1 years
Most releases are documented
notes for 6 of 9 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
12 years old
10 releases · first in 2014

Release timeline

10 releases since 2014

20142016201820202022

Releases

0.471 Dec 2023
fixed issue #142 : isOleFile has a new data parameter to handle files in memory properly
2023-12-01 v0.47:

fixed issue #142: isOleFile has a new data parameter to handle files in memory properly

fixed issue #156: write_sect now correctly detects when data is larger than the sector size

use GitHub actions for testing and Codecov for coverage, added python 3.8 to 3.12 (PR #157 by @hugovk)

added VT_VECTOR support for properties (PR #135 by Maciej Kotowicz @mak)

olefile is now distributed as a wheel package (PR #130 by @hugovk)

olefile will not close a file handle if it was provided by the caller
(PR #121 by Christian Herdtweck, issue #120)

added method get_userdefined_properties (PR #114 by Malwrologist @DissectMalware)

added exceptions OleFileError and NotOleFileError to replace IOError (PR #110 by Ken Peterson @TheElementalOfCreation)

removed support for Python 3.4 (PR #118 by @hugovk)

0.45.125 Jan 2018

2018-01-24 v0.45: olefile can now overwrite streams of any size, improved handling of malformed files, fixed several bugs, end of support for Python 2

2018-01-24 v0.45: olefile can now overwrite streams of any size, improved handling of malformed files, fixed several bugs, end of support for Python 2.6 and 3.3.

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0.446 Jan 2017

removed support for Python 2.5 (olefile2)

several bugfixes
removed support for Python 2.5 (olefile2)
added support for incomplete streams and incorrect directory entries (to read malformed documents)
added getclsid
improved documentation with API reference.

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Additional notes2 sources agree

renamed _OleDirectoryEntry and OleStream without '' - in OleStream use _raise_defect instead of exceptions 2016-04-27 - added support for incomplete streams and incorrect directory entries (to read malformed documents)

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0.401 Oct 20142 sources agree

2014-11-09 NE: - added support for Jython (Niko Ehrenfeuchter) 2014-11-13 v0.41 PL: - improved isOleFile and OleFileIO.open to support OLE data in a s

2014-11-09 NE: - added support for Jython (Niko Ehrenfeuchter) 2014-11-13 v0.41 PL: - improved isOleFile and OleFileIO.open to support OLE data in a string buffer and file-like objects. 2014-11-21 PL: - updated comments according to Pillow's commits 2015-01-24 v0.42 PL: - changed the default path name encoding from Latin-1 to UTF-8 on Python 2.x (Unicode on Python 3.x) - added path_encoding option to override the default - fixed a bug in _list when a storage is empty

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