Binary protocols intrigue me. They tend to be time-suckers, taking forever to piece together and may not ultimately reveal anything too interesting.. but they intrigue me nonetheless. I've started work on a tool to help me work through quickly recognizing type-length-value based protocols that try fitting data into that pattern. The code is at github. I don't anticipate it being some glorious open-source tool - I'm just going to add the features I need to it to help me visualize these packets I'm seeing. One of the things I'm working on these days inbetween mourning the loss of summer.

if 1 * 2 < 3:
    print "hello, world!"