"Emile van Sebille" <em...@fenx.com> wrote
"414243440d0a"
Is there a way in Python to say this is a string of HEX characters like
Perl's pack? Right now I have to take the string and add a \x to every
two values i.e. \x41\x42...
import binascii
binascii.a2b_hex('41424344')
I hadn't come across binascii before, but it doesn't do what I expected:
import binascii as b
b.a2b_hex('414243440d0a')
'ABCD\r\n'
This appears to be converting it to a binary value then displaying that
binary value as an ascii string. I'm not sure what the value of that is
over struct or int? Can anyone enlighten me about why I'd ever want to
use this?
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