Hexadecimal list conversion

[John Machin]

On Dec 21, 2:51 am, Peter Otten <__pete... at web.de> wrote:
> Mark T wrote:
> > "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-... at yahoo.com.ar> wrote in message
> >> If you got that from a file, I bet you read it using the wrong
> >> encoding. Try opening the file using codecs.open("filename", "rb",
> >> encoding="utf-16-be") instead of plain open.
> > There is an odd number of bytes in each string.  Each begins and ends
> > with \x00, so it doesn't look like utf-16-be.
>
> I think Gabriel is right. The OP probably butchered the original structure
> with
>
> open(filename).read().split("\n")

Or he's read the file "normally" and then done
    line = lineZAP
where ZAP is one of [:-1], .rstrip(), .rstrip("\n"), etc

However that accounts only for the rightmost trailing \x00. Looks like
each line has been chainsawed with .split(",") or whatever the
original field separator was.

If Gabriel's instructions don't "work" for the OP, the OP should show
us an unambiguous representation of the first few bytes of the
original file, instead of leaving it to guesswork:

    print repr(open("the_file", "rb").read()[:200])