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synacor.py
My OOP, poorly-documented concise working response to the Synacor challenge
Debug commands
At any time the program is waiting for input, a string of the following form may be input:
.<cmd> <args>
This will execute the file <cmd>.py with dbg_args[0] set to <cmd> and <args> stored in dbg_args[1..n].
For example, the self-test and decryption at the beginning of the program takes a comparatively long time. To save the state to the dumps/init file, enter:
.dbg/dump dumps/init
Similarly, debug commands may be passed as command-line arguments to synacor.py in the form:
./synacor.py <file> <cmd> <args>
For example, to load the dumps/init state to skip the self-test and decryption, run:
./synacor.py challenge.bin dbg/load dumps/init
Dump files are stored in Python pickle format, so if you want to inspect the memory in a hex editor, for example, it will be necessary to extract a raw memory dump:
./tools/dump_to_raw.py dumps/init dumps/init.raw