Hexlify input using Binascii

Question

I am trying to hexlify input from user but I get the following error:

TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'

If I use b before string then it works but how can I do it with input?
Here is the code:

import binascii as bs
text = input('Please Enter Your text:')
bs.hexlify(text)

I tried doing:

text = input('Please enter you text:')
import binascii as bs
bs.hexlify(bytes(text))

But it gives the following error:

TypeError: string argument without an encoding

How can I do that?

Did you Google "How to convert str to bytes in Python" or checked `bytes`'s docs? — Ashwini Chaudhary, Aug 11 '17 at 06:08
`hexlify` simply expects bytes, how it is passed to it is not its problem. The second error is from `bytes()` call. — Ashwini Chaudhary, Aug 11 '17 at 06:11

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 11 '17 at 06:06

5

Add encoding parameter to bytes:

import binascii as bs
text = input('Please Enter Your text:')
bs.hexlify(bytes(text, encoding="utf8"))

answered Aug 11 '17 at 06:06

Dor-Ron

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