🔒 Package import issue

[lusty drift]

I've an issue with importing packages using python. I've tried python 3.12 and 3.11 but none of them seems to resolve the problem. I installed this package using pip and when I tried to run the code, this error appeared. The same error shows up with importing the pycryptodome package too. I need a quick solution for this issue since I have a contest and I need to resolve this error as soon as possible.

[vast vigil]

@lusty drift

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[white shale]

Try in virtual environment

[polar turret]

First of all, pwn sounds like the sketchiest lib

but can you show the code for pwn?

[lusty drift]

it's not a package that I made

I use it for CTFs specifically Crypto ones

the same error goes with pycryptodome

[polar turret]

What's it do? Do you have a link for it?

[lusty drift]

remote connection to instances

https://github.com/Gallopsled/pwntools

and pycryptodome also

[polar turret]

There's no way this doesn't break the server rules

[lusty drift]

https://pypi.org/project/pycryptodome/

[polar turret]

!rule 5

[vast vigil]

Rules

5. Do not provide or request help on projects that may violate terms of service, or that may be deemed inappropriate, malicious, or illegal.

[lusty drift]

ok sorry what can I do then

[polar turret]

something else

[lusty drift]

I need to solve this error as soon as possible

I tried venvs

[polar turret]

What are you trying to do?

[lusty drift]

and reinstalling windows twice

[lusty drift]

I am a ctf player and sometimes maybe most of the times I need these packages

this error popped up like 1-2 months ago

I used sagemath on a jupyter notebook and the packages work there properly

What I need is to solve this error so that I can get back to my CTFs

[polar turret]

Mods help - is this okay? Seems white-hat to me but i can't really tell

[lusty drift]

do you think that I am a kind of a exploit maker or a white hat hacker?

[tiny wagon]

yeahhh CTFs are a bit of a grey area as far as our rules go

in some cases not even just for being hacking-tangent, but active CTF competitions also fall under the 'ongoing exams' rule

[lusty drift]

bruh is the problem with CTFs or the main issue I am having

dude

[tiny wagon]

first of all you probably should be using a sandboxed Linux VM instead of Windows though

[polar turret]

The problem is how it fits into the rules of the server

[lusty drift]

So you are telling me that the server rules are restricted to my problem

So I can't solve my problem cuz of server rules

[tiny wagon]

If your project violates the rules overall, we don't care what your specific question is

[polar turret]

As etrotta said, it's a grey area

[lusty drift]

Can you search up BackHatMEA or ICMTC

[polar turret]

but i agree with the linux suggestion

[tiny wagon]

you can try asking in #cybersecurity - the regulars there are more familiar with up to which degree we can assist with that sort of question - but honestly that TypeError in particular makes zero sense

[lusty drift]

It doesn't relate to any cybersecurity term this is some sort of a package problem. But thanks very helpful tho

ironically

[tiny wagon]

If that package is only ever used within the realm of cybersec, and your problem is specific to that package in particular, then it does falls under that channel

if you are getting that error whenever you try to import literally anything at all, there is something very wrong with your installation or computer

[lusty drift]

packages like "string" and "binascii" work just fine

those packages that need the "pip install package_name" thingy doesn't work properly that's all

[tiny wagon]

does import pip works on its own? like py -c "import pip" from the command line works and exists without an error or gives a traceback

(normally you wouldn't import pip, but it should be a descent sanity check to see if it's related to third-party packages at all, or specifically related to some X package you're using)

[tiny wagon]

with quotes

[lusty drift]

I think it works

[tiny wagon]

ok so it is specific to that package in particular

well, either that or your environment or IDE

[lusty drift]

I tried creating a new venv but some thing happens

[tiny wagon]

#cybersecurity

[lusty drift]

It works with sagemath

[lusty drift]

Yea I sent smthn there

waiting for someone to reply

[polar turret]

Can you try py -c "import pwn" too?

and py -c "from pwn import *" because that's what the docs say to do

[polar turret]

ok at least we have a better stack trace now

[polar turret]

It's definitely a bug but looks like it's been fixed already on the github

can you install the latest version of pwn?

the line on github is self.num_colors = termcap.get('colors', default=8) if sys.platform == 'win32' else 8 but your version is self.num_colors = termcap.get('colors', 8) if sys.platform == 'win32' else 8

the omission of the default= is what breaks it

Here was the fix commit:
https://github.com/Gallopsled/pwntools/commit/4879590a37f4fe726dbd9ec276154b05449abefe

ah but it's in the prerelease

maybe can you pip install pwntools==4.14.0beta0

[lusty drift]

Ok wait I'll try that out

So the problem is in the package itself

Ok that works

damn

[polar turret]

It's only on windows though. If you switch to linux it should work

[lusty drift]

Yea I know I've tried on a vm

[vast vigil]

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