Working with bytes.

[Adam T. Gautier]

I came up with a solution using the binascii module's hexlify method.  
Thanks

Adam T. Gautier wrote:

> I have been unable to solve a problem.  I am working with MD5 
> signatures trying to put these in a database.  The MD5 signatures are 
> not generated using the python md5 module but an external application 
> that is producing the valid 16 byte signature formats.  Anyway, these 
> 16 byte signatures are not nescarrally valid strings.  How do I 
> manipulate the bytes?  I need to concatenate the bytes with a SQL 
> statement which is a string.  This works fine for most of the md5 
> signatures but some blow up with a TypeError.  Because there is a NULL 
> byte or something else.  So I guess my ultimate question is how do I 
> get a prepared SQL statement to accept a series of bytes?  How do I 
> convert the bytes to a valid string like:
>
> 'x%L9d\340\316\262\363\037\311\345<\262\357\215'
>
> that can be concatenated?
>
> Thanks
>