python b'...' notation

[Cameron Simpson]

On 29May2013 13:14, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
| On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:33 PM, alcyon <steve at terrafirma.us> wrote:
| > This notation displays hex values except when they are 'printable', in which case it displays that printable character.  How do I get it to force hex for all bytes?  Thanks, Steve
| 
| Is this what you want?
| 
| >>> ''.join('%02x' % x for x in b'hello world')
| '68656c6c6f20776f726c64'

Not to forget binascii.hexlify.
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