How to convert a string containing hexadecimal number to ascii text in python

Question

I've been trying to convert this string:

str = "68656c6c6f20776f726421"

to recover a ASCII value:

str = "hello word!"

I need some help with this please.

EDIT

Sorry for not giving more information, I'm a newbie, unfortunately.

but reading several pages of this wonderful site I found the solution.

the problem was that I got the string of a file, and a \n was printed, changing the length of the string.

You can find the answer here: [link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9641440/convert-from-ascii-string-encoded-in-hex-to-plain-ascii) — Henry Yik, Sep 30 '18 at 18:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 30 '18 at 18:37

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have you tried

codecs.decode(str, "hex").decode('utf-8')

You may need to assign this to a variable or print the results to see the output depending on your use case.

answered Sep 30 '18 at 18:37

Philip Bal

smitty_werbenjagermanjensen · Answer 2 · 2018-09-30T19:11:35.700

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If I was doing this solution it would be the following:

data = bytes.fromhex(b'68656c6c6f20776f726421'.decode("ascii"))
print('The hex value converted to ascii is the following:',data.decode('utf-8'))

edited Sep 30 '18 at 19:11

answered Sep 30 '18 at 18:46

What is `bytes` here? What do you do with `string`? – Matthias Fripp Sep 30 '18 at 19:02
well, the bytes here are the hex numbers. Hexadecimal numbers are defined as 0-9 and A-F. My apologies don't need string I thought I would. Thanks for keeping me on my toes with the answer. – smitty_werbenjagermanjensen Sep 30 '18 at 19:10

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