Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > Let's just guess that you want to xor with the byte value 0xAA. We can > do that fairly simply, using integer operations. > >>>> data = b'$//W?\xc0\x829\xa2\xb9\x13\x8c\xd5{\\' >>>> bytes(b ^ 0xAA for b in data) > b'\x8e\x85\x85\xfd\x95j(\x93\x08\x13\xb9&\x7f\xd1\xf6' > > Well, that doesn't look much more intelligible.
This looks clearer: >>> code = b'a0\xed\xf0Z\x15]g^\xce3x' >>> key = b')U\x81\x9c55*\x08,\xa2WY' >>> bytes(c ^ k for c, k in zip(code, key)).decode() 'Hello world!' Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list