Module Utilities¶

pcapkit.utilities contains several useful functions and classes which are fundations of pcapkit, including decorater function seekset() and beholder(), and several user-refined exceptions and warnings.

Logging System¶

pcapkit.utilities.logging contains naïve integration of the Python logging system, i.e. a logging.Logger instance as logger.

pcapkit.utilities.logging.logger¶

Logger instance named after pcapkit.

Type:: logging.Logger

Environment Variables¶

pcapkit.utilities.logging.DEVMODE¶

Development mode flag.

Type:: bool

Version Compatibility¶

pcapkit further provides a compatibility layer for the following objects and functions:

Compatibility Target	Minimal Required Version
`pathlib`	Python 3.5
`ModuleNotFoundError`	Python 3.6
`collections.abc.Collection`	Python 3.6
`functools.cached_property()`	Python 3.8
`collections.abc.Mapping[KT, VT]`	Python 3.9
`tuple[T, ...]`	Python 3.9
`list[T]`	Python 3.9
`dict[KT, VT]`	Python 3.9
`enum.StrEnum`	Python 3.11
`typing.final()`	Python 3.8
`decimal.localcontext(ctx=None, **kwargs)`	Python 3.11
`enum.show_flag_values()`	Python 3.11
`typing.TypeAlias`	Python 3.10