[Tutor] str format conversion help

[eMyListsDDg]

Hello Alan,

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thought i did, my apologies.



> "eMyListsDDg" <emylistsddg at gmail.com> wrote 

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>> '\x00\x11\xb2\x00@,O\xa4'

>> the above str is being returned from one key/value pair in 
>> a dictionary. it is the addr of a network device.

>> i want to store the addr's in their 8byte mac format like this,

>>    [00 11 b2 00 40 2C 4F A4]

> Thats what you've got. The string is merely a representation 
> of that data.

>> the combinations of format strings using the print statement 
>> hasn't resulted in what i need.

> format strings are used to display data not to store it.
> Do you really want to display the data in the format you've 
> shown? Or do you really want to store it as 8 bytes?


the format shown. now that you point out a few things, it really wouldn't matter. 

> The two concepts are completely different and more 
> or less unrelated.

i see that now, as a newbie to python. 


>> looking for a suggestion on how to format this, 
>> '\x00\x11\xb2\x00@,O\xa4' into this [00-11-B2-00-40-2C-4F-A4]

> OK, to display it you need to extract each byte and convert it to 
> a string representing the hex value. Fortunately you an treat a 
> string of bytes as charactrers and the hex() function will give you 
> the hex representation. So...

> print "[%s]" % ('-'.join([hex(v) for v in theValue]) )

helps me to understand the concept differences you pointed out better

appreciate the help...