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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](https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html) 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