Closing pefile file handle

[Alex_H]

I'm recursively scanning a directory and opening each file with
pefile. I'm a little worried about memory issues. Does anyone have any
recommendations for closing out the handle that pefile would have to
the file?

import pefile
p = pefile.PE("bad.exe")
p.close() <- Does anything exist like this?

I was thinking that I could pass the file name to a function and have
pefile open the file inside the function. Python's memory management
would deallocate the memory once the function returns. Any thoughts?
Would the function method work?

Thanks,

Alex

[Ero Carrera]

Hi,

If you do not keep references to the pefile.PE() instances the descriptor should be closed once the instance is freed by the garbage collector.

If you want to play it safe you could open the file yourself, read all the data, close the file and create an instance with the alternative form:

pe = pefile.PE(data=data_you_just_read)

Hope that helps,
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[Alex_H]

Cool. Thanks Ero, that's exactly what I needed. Once again thank you
for the help.