On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:

Command-line hexdump has a bit more options and abilities, such as
wrapping to N character width, printing an ASCII transcript beside the
representation, etc.

To support this flexibility, a module function is better than a
codec :-)

I agree. I also agree that pprint is a good place for this.

Though you could:

b'asdf'.decode('hexdump80chars')

b'asdf'.decode('hexdump40chars')

b'asdf'.decode('hexdump80chars-trans')

b'asdf'.decode('hexdump40chars-trans')

Jokes aside, this makes me wonder why decode/encode work like they do. It'd be more sensible to:

b'asdf'.decode.utf16(little_endian=True)

'asdf'.encode.utf8(bom=True)

Yuval