[issue22385] Define a binary output formatting mini-language for *.hex()

[Gregory P. Smith]

Gregory P. Smith <greg at krypto.org> added the comment:

FYI - micropython added an optional 'sep' second argument to binascii.hexlify() that is a single character separator to insert between every two hex digits.

given the #9951 .hex() methods we have everywhere (and corresponding .fromhex), binascii.hexlify is almost a legacy API.  (but micropython doesn't have those methods yet).  one key difference?  hexlify returns the hex value as a bytes rather than a str.

just adding a couple of parameters to the hex() method seems fine.  a separator string and a number of bytes to separate.

yet another minilanguage would be overkill.  and confusing in the face of the existing numeric formatting mini language ability to insert , or _ separators every four spaces ala f'{value:_x}'.

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stage:  -> needs patch
type:  -> enhancement
versions: +Python 3.8 -Python 3.7

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