[Tutor] Hex conversion strangeness

[Andrew Robert]

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Hi Everyone,

I am trying to understand conversion of a value to hex.

Could you please confirm that what I am doing is right?

Get the hex value of ! and store it in a

a=hex(ord('!'))
print a
0X21

I see examples including this kind of a statement but I am not sure why.

int(a,16)
33

If the 0X21 is the actual hex value, then why convert to integer?

Is this the ASCII table reference to the hex value?


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Thank you,
Andrew Robert
Systems Architect
Information Technologies
MFS Investment Management
Phone:   617-954-5882

E-mail:  arobert at mfs.com
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