Error parsing data from XML python "NameError: name 'XXX' is not defined"

Code: Parsing some data from an XML file as , taking user input and trying to replace a sub-string in the text parsed from the XML file. (This is for a upcoming HID attack framework , part of my offensive computer security degree)

def Generate_Payload(payload): print " Selection : " , payload import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET payload_raw = ET.parse(payload).getroot().find('payload').text print payload_raw shell_name = input("Please enter the name of your malicious apk :") payload_raw_filtered = payload_raw.replace('#APKNAME#', shell_name) print payload_raw_filtered os.system('pause')

Error:

 Please enter the name of your malsivus apk :apk Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Users\Master\Documents\GitHub\HIDAAF\hidaaf.py", line 52, in <module> List_Payloads() File "C:\Users\Master\Documents\GitHub\HIDAAF\hidaaf.py", line 41, in List_Payloads Generate_Payload(filenames[payload - 1 ]) File "C:\Users\Master\Documents\GitHub\HIDAAF\hidaaf.py", line 18, in Generate_Payload shell_name= input("Please enter the name of your malicious apk :") File "<string>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name 'apk' is not defined

1 Answer

You are probably using python 2. Use raw_input instead of input.

input is for entering actual python code, so it's complaining that the variable with name apk is not defined.

This is not the case in python 3.