Quick Python Scripts for Security Professionals

Posted on May 10, 2025  •  1 minutes  • 129 words

During a recent triage, I had to brush up on my Python skills to try to automate some tasks that I had to do. Here are a few helpful Python scripts could be helpful for security professionals. This page will continue to be updated as I often times use the same scripts to manipulate data in similiar ways.

This first script reads a file with IPs and gets the unique IPs and stores them into a set and prints them out. In the example below, the strip method is invoked twice, the first to remove spaces, and the second time to remove the [].

cleaned_ips = set()

with open("ips.txt", "r") as f:
    for line in f:
        ip = line.strip().strip("[]")  
        cleaned_ips.add(ip)

# Print distinct IPs
for ip in cleaned_ips:
    print(ip)