Converting strings to hex

[Guido van Rossum]

Dale Strickland-Clark wrote:
> 
> The output from MD5.digest() is a 16 byte binary string.
> 
> I want to convert it to hex for printing.

It's hard to beat this, which uses only built-in operations:

def hexify(s):
    return "%02x"*len(s) % tuple(map(ord, s))

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