[Python-ideas] hexdump

[Yuval Greenfield]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at 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
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