Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Extending wireshark with Python

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 29, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Sébastien Tandel wrote:

>    These last weeks, I spent some time to integrate python into  
> wireshark and made the first commit today in the wireshark trunk.  
> This way, now, it is possible to write a dissector for wireshark in  
> python. see http://wiki.wireshark.org/Python for documentation.

So is this

	Wireshark with an embedded version of the Python interpreter, so that  
all the Wireshark GUI is available

or

	a libwireshark module to be loaded into a stand-alone Python  
interpreter?

Is it possible to write a tap in Python?