string byte dump

[Jammer]

Does anyone that knows python want to write me a byte dump for strings? :-)

I am trying to modify a plugin (that someone else wrote) that uses
interprocess communication.
It works on strings without special characters but it fails on other
stings like "Björk".

It calls decode('utf8') but I guess the strings are not utf8 so I need
to find out what is being input.

[Rob Wolfe]

Re: string byte dump

Jammer <ask.me@mail.co mwrites:

Does anyone that knows python want to write me a byte dump for strings? :-)
>
I am trying to modify a plugin (that someone else wrote) that uses
interprocess communication.
It works on strings without special characters but it fails on other
stings like "Björk".
>
It calls decode('utf8') but I guess the strings are not utf8 so I need
to find out what is being input.

Try this:

>>"abc".encode( "hex")

'616263'

--
HTH,
Rob

[Jammer]

Re: string byte dump

Rob Wolfe wrote:

Jammer <ask.me@mail.co mwrites:
>

>Does anyone that knows python want to write me a byte dump for strings? :-)
>>
>I am trying to modify a plugin (that someone else wrote) that uses
>interprocess communication.
>It works on strings without special characters but it fails on other
>stings like "Björk".
>>
>It calls decode('utf8') but I guess the strings are not utf8 so I need
>to find out what is being input.

>
Try this:
>

>>>"abc".encode ("hex")

'616263'
>

Awesome, thanks.

[John Machin]

Re: string byte dump



On Jan 29, 4:57 am, Jammer <ask...@mail.co mwrote:

Does anyone that knows python want to write me a byte dump for strings? :-)
>
I am trying to modify a plugin (that someone else wrote) that uses
interprocess communication.
It works on strings without special characters but it fails on other
stings like "Björk".
>
It calls decode('utf8') but I guess the strings are not utf8 so I need
to find out what is being input.

Try the repr() built-in function. Any byte not in printable ASCII will
be displayed in hex.

| >>foo = "\xfforick"
| >>foou = unicode(foo, 'latin1')
| >>foo8 = foou.encode('ut f8')
| >>print repr(foo), repr(foou), repr(foo8)
| '\xfforick' u'\xfforick' '\xc3\xbforick'