HEX to ASCII

Piet van Oostrum piet at vanoostrum.org
Sun Oct 6 21:27:44 EDT 2013


markotaht at gmail.com writes:

>  problem is : Traceback (most recent call last): 
>   File "C:\Users\Marko\Desktop\hacker.org\XOR cypher.py", line 35, in <module> 
>     print("Key-" + str(võti) + ": " + str("".join(tulemus2))) 
> TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, bytes found 
>
> If i  take away the join command i get this:
>  Key-00000000: [b'u', b'o', b'\x00', b'\x1d', b' ', b'|', b'N', b'\x0f', b'9', b'j', b'K', b'J', b'&', b'#', b'A', b'K', b'5', b'k', b'_', b'\x1e', b',', b'j', b'\x0c', b'\x08', b'i', b'(', b'\x06', b'\\', b'r', b'3', b'\x1f', b'V', b's', b'9', b'\x1d'] 
>
> the Key-00000000 is the key im using to decrypt the code. everything else is generated by the decrytion process and the unhexlify command. So my guess is, the join command cant handle the b"u" type of format. how can i get rid of the b. 
>
> Or does anyone have a better idea how to translate HEX into ASCII and sort out the lines that make sense

Why do you post the same question twice under different subjects?
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