Cameron Simpson wrote: > This seems to return a bytes object in Python 3.3.0. I was expecting a > string. The documentation here: > > http://docs.python.org/3/library/binascii.html#binascii.hexlify > > also keeps me expecting a string. Am I missing something?
"""Return the hexadecimal representation of the binary data. Every byte of data is converted into the corresponding 2-digit hex representation. """ makes it pretty clear that the function is operating on bytes, not str. The following sentence "The resulting string..." is likely a leftover from Python 2 and should be fixed. If you need str instead of bytes it's easy enough to do the encoding/decoding yourself: >>> import binascii as ba >>> ba.hexlify("äöü".encode()) b'c3a4c3b6c3bc' >>> ba.unhexlify(_).decode() 'äöü' -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list