[New-bugs-announce] [issue3532] bytes.tohex method

[Matt Giuca]

New submission from Matt Giuca <matt.giuca at gmail.com>:

I haven't been able to find a way to encode a bytes object in
hexadecimal, where in Python 2.x I'd go "str.encode('hex')".

I recommend adding a bytes.tohex() method (in the same vein as the
existing bytes.fromhex class method).

I've attached a patch which adds this method to the bytes and bytearray
classes (in the C code). Also included documentation and test cases.

Style note: The bytesobject.c and bytearrayobject.c files are all over
the place in terms of tabs/spaces. I used tabs in bytesobject and spaces
in bytearrayobject, since those seemed to be the predominant styles in
either file.

Commit log:

Added "tohex" method to bytes and bytearray objects. Also added
documentation and test cases.

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components: Interpreter Core
files: bytes.tohex.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 70932
nosy: mgiuca
severity: normal
status: open
title: bytes.tohex method
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.0
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11091/bytes.tohex.patch

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