[issue17868] pprint long non-printable bytes as hexdump

[anatoly techtonik]

anatoly techtonik added the comment:

Some issues:

1. the hex converting logic doesn't belong to base64 module - there is no chance a person without StackOverflow access can find it
2. i'd put issue17862 first as a dependency for this one, because proposed itertools.chunks() can be further optimized (chunking endless sequences with constant memory overhead, pypy specific speedups, etc)

I like that this is not over-engineered. In my hexdump module I got too involved with problems of parsing/producing full dumps in a way compatible with Python 2/3. So I have to postpone my own user story until finally I run out of time.

Probably hexdump.dump() returning string will make it a useful API for the primary user story.
hexdump.dumpgen() as a line generator with 16 hexadecimal bytes delimited by space should cover all other use cases.

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