python字节码执行_可以从脚本执行Python字节码吗？

Say I have a running CPython session,

Is there a way to run the data (bytes) from a pyc file directly?

(without having the data on-disk necessarily, and without having to write a temporary pyc file)

Example script to show a simple use-case:

if foo:

# Intentionally ambiguous, since the data source

# is a detail and answers shouldn't depend this detail.

data = read_data_from_somewhere()

else:

data = open("bar.pyc", 'rb').read()

assert(type(data) is bytes)

code = bytes_to_code(data)

# call a method from the loaded code

code.call_function()

Exact use isn't important, but generating code dynamically and copying over a network to execute is one use-case (for the purpose of thinking about this question).

Here are some example use-cases, which made me curious to know how this can be done:

Checking Python scripts for malicious code.

If a single command can access a larger body of code hidden in binary data, what would that command look like?

Dynamically generate code and cache it for re-use (not necessarily on disk, could use a data-base for example).

Ability to send pre-compiled byte-code to a process, control an application which embeds Python for eg.

解决方案Is there a way to run the data from a pyc file directly?

The compiled code object can be saved using marshal

import marshal

bytes = marshal.dumps(eggs)

the bytes can be converted back to a code object

eggs = marshal.loads(bytes)

exec(eggs)

A pyc file is a marshaled code object with a header

For Python3, the header is 12 bytes which need to be skipped, the remaining data can be read via marshal.loads.

At the simple level, a .pyc file is a binary file containing only three things:

A four-byte magic number,

A four-byte modification timestamp, and

A marshalled code object.

Note, the link references Python2, but its almost the same in Python3, the pyc header size is just 12 instead of 8 bytes.