python b'...' notation

[alcyon]

On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:19:42 PM UTC-7, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 29May2013 13:14, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly at gmail.com> wrote:
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> | On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 12:33 PM, alcyon <steve at terrafirma.us> wrote:
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> | > 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
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> | Is this what you want?
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> | >>> ''.join('%02x' % x for x in b'hello world')
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> | '68656c6c6f20776f726c64'
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> Not to forget binascii.hexlify.
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> Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
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Thanks for the binascii.hexlify tip. I was able to make it work but I did have to write a function to get it exactly the string I wanted.  I wanted, for example, <b'\n\x00'> to display as <0x0A 0x00> or <b'!\xff(\xc0'> to display as <0x21 0xFF 0x28 0xC0>.