@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ This section lists some helpful tips that we have found. These are all now in t
- We haven't found a good way to debug while running inside of Autopsy. So, logging becomes critical. You need to go through a bunch of steps to get the logger to display your module name. See the sample module for a log() method that does all of this for you.
- When you name the file with your Python module in it, restrict its name to letters, numbers, and underscore (_).
- Python modules using external libraries which load native code (SciPy, NumPy, etc.) are currently NOT supported. RuntimeError will be thrown.
- Settings previously serialized to the disk will not persist if any changes are made to the Python module since then; default settings will be loaded.
\section mod_dev_py_distribute Distribution
To distribute and share your Python module, ZIP up the folder and send it around. Other users of the module should expand the ZIP file and drop the folder into their Autopsy Python folder.
