On 11 September 2014 11:36, Ron Adam ron3200@gmail.com wrote:
When working with hex data, I prefer the way hex editors do it. With pairs of hex digits separated by a space.
"50 79 74 68 6f 6e" b'Python'But I'm not sure there's a way to make that work cleanly. :-/
I realised (http://bugs.python.org/issue22385) we could potentially support that style through the string formatting syntax, using the precision field to specify the number of "bytes per chunk", along with a couple of the other existing formatting flags in the mini-language:
format(b"xyz", "x") -> '78797a' format(b"xyz", "X") -> '78797A' format(b"xyz", "#x") -> '0x78797a'
format(b"xyz", ".1x") -> '78 79 7a' format(b"abcdwxyz", ".4x") -> '61626364 7778797a' format(b"abcdwxyz", "#.4x") -> '0x61626364 0x7778797a'
format(b"xyz", ",.1x") -> '78,79,7a' format(b"abcdwxyz", ",.4x") -> '61626364,7778797a' format(b"abcdwxyz", "#,.4x") -> '0x61626364,0x7778797a'
Cheers, Nick.