How can I read the memory of another process in Python in Windows?

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I didn’t see anything in the standard python libraries but I found an example using ctypes like you suggested on another site:

from ctypes import *
from ctypes.wintypes import *

OpenProcess = windll.kernel32.OpenProcess
ReadProcessMemory = windll.kernel32.ReadProcessMemory
CloseHandle = windll.kernel32.CloseHandle

PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS = 0x1F0FFF

pid = 4044   # I assume you have this from somewhere.
address = 0x1000000  # Likewise; for illustration I'll get the .exe header.

buffer = c_char_p("The data goes here")
bufferSize = len(buffer.value)
bytesRead = c_ulong(0)

processHandle = OpenProcess(PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS, False, pid)
if ReadProcessMemory(processHandle, address, buffer, bufferSize, byref(bytesRead)):
    print "Success:", buffer
else:
    print "Failed."

CloseHandle(processHandle)

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