Getting .decode("hex") to display results as normal charcters and escaped hex when run from .py

Question

If I type "32510ba9babebbbefd001547a810e67149caee".decode('hex') into the shell the output looks like 2Q\x0b\xa9\xba\xbe\xbb\xbe\xfd\x00\x15G\xa8\x10\xe6qI\xca\xee' which is what I want.

However if I run this from a .py script nothing gets printed. If I change the code to

print "32510ba9babebbbefd001547a810e67149caee".decode('hex')

I get all kinds of symbols displayed like ♬, for example

The problem is when I use print it displays symbols instead of escaped hex — k29, Apr 26 '15 at 11:29
For what do you want the escaped python representation of a string? — Daniel, Apr 26 '15 at 11:32
Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14960885/print-escaped-representation-of-a-str — gus27, Apr 26 '15 at 11:36

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 26 '15 at 11:34

3

This is similar to what the python shell does:

print repr("32510ba9babebbbefd001547a810e67149caee".decode('hex'))

answered Apr 26 '15 at 11:34

gus27

2,616
1
21
25

@k29: this answer and naltipar's are subtly different - `repr` includes the surrounding quotes, `.encode('string-escape')` does not. – mhawke Apr 26 '15 at 11:49
True; both answers essentially do what I require: display the string as escaped hex. – k29 Apr 26 '15 at 11:55

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 26 '15 at 11:32

2

Is this what you want?

print "32510ba9babebbbefd001547a810e67149caee".decode('hex').encode('string-escape')

answered Apr 26 '15 at 11:32

codingEnthusiast

3,800
2
25
37

Getting .decode("hex") to display results as normal charcters and escaped hex when run from .py

2 Answers2