incrementing string/hex value from file and write back

[Rami Chowdhury]

Of course - my apologies, I was being an idiot.

On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:38:08 -0700, Simon Forman <sajmikins at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Aug 20, 5:18 pm, "Rami Chowdhury" <rami.chowdh... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > val = val.encode('hex')
>>
>> That's the crucial line -- it's returning a new integer, which you are  
>> re-binding to val. If you then did:
>
> No, it returns another string, which still isn't the decimal
> representation of the hex string.  hex C => decimal 12
>
> In [1]: '0C'.encode('hex')
> Out[1]: '3043'



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