Iteration through hex string

Question

I have such binary string:

 some_bytes = b'Q\x00\xfdM\xf6\x02\x14M\x03'

I would like to iterate through elements of this string (do not have to print, may be do some action with x):

 for x in some_bytes:
     print (x, end=' ')

The code above print 81 0 253 77 246 2 20 77 3,

but I want to see \Q \x00 \xfd M \xf6 \x02 \x14 M \x03

How can I do it? I can not do chr(), because it raises UnicodeEncodeError for \xfd.

Why do you need the string representation? Those numbers are the bytes. — Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
– Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams, Commented Nov 8, 2016 at 23:29

wim · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-08 23:35:56Z

1

>>> for x in some_bytes:
...     print('{!r}'.format(bytes([x]))[2:-1], end=' ')
...     
...     
Q \x00 \xfd M \xf6 \x02 \x14 M \x03

answered Nov 8, 2016 at 23:35

wim

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