string byte dump

[Rob Wolfe]

Jammer <ask.me at mail.com> writes:

> Does anyone that knows python want to write me a byte dump for strings? :-)
>
> I am trying to modify a plugin (that someone else wrote) that uses
> interprocess communication.
> It works on strings without special characters but it fails on other
> stings like "Björk".
>
> It calls decode('utf8') but I guess the strings are not utf8 so I need
> to find out what is being input.

Try this:

>>> "abc".encode("hex")
'616263'

-- 
HTH,
Rob