How to print non-printable chars??

[Julio Cesar]

On Aug 13, 1:22 am, Nobody <nob... at nowhere.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:59:42 -0400, Julio Cesar Rodriguez Cruz wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > If I open an .exe file in any text editor I get lot of odd chars,
> > what I want is to know how to output those chars if I have the hexadecimal
> > code. I found out how to do the reverse process with the quopri module,
>
> > i.e.:
> >>>> import quopri
> >>>> quopri.encodestring('ñè ')
> > '=F1=E8=18'
> >>>> quopri.decodestring('=F1=E8=18')
> > '\xf1\xe8\x18'
>
> > but how to do the reverse? ...gived '\xf1\xe8\x18', print 'ñè '
>
>         print(quopri.decodestring('=F1=E8=18'))
> or:
>         sys.stdout.write(quopri.decodestring('=F1=E8=18'))
>
> If you type an expression into the interactive Python interpreter, the
> result is converted to a string using repr(); for strings, this converts
> 8-bit characters to their hexadecimal escape sequences, so that the result
> only uses ASCII.
>
> OTOH, the print statement converts values to strings using str(); for
> strings, this is an identity operation (i.e. it returns the original
> string untouched). Similarly, the .write() method of file objects uses str().

It just works!! thanks a lot and also for the explanations ;)
Cheers
Julio Cesar