How to convert a full ascii string to hex in python?

Question

I have this string: string = '{'id':'other_aud1_aud2','kW':15}'

And, simply put, I would like my string to turn into an hex string like this:'7b276964273a276f746865725f617564315f61756432272c276b57273a31357d'

Have been trying binascii.hexlify(string), but it keeps returning:

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

Also it's only to make it work with the following method:bytearray.fromhex(data['string_hex']).decode()

For the entire code here it is:

string_data = "{'id':'"+self.id+"','kW':"+str(value)+"}"
print(string_data)
string_data_hex = hexlify(string_data)
get_json = bytearray.fromhex(data['string_hex']).decode()

Also this is python 3.6

I was able to run same piece of code by replacing intial and trailing ' with ". — mad_
– mad_, Commented Dec 4, 2018 at 20:38
@mad_ string_data = "{'id':'"+self.id+"','kW':"+str(value)+"}" print(string_data) string_data_hex = hexlify(string_data) Tried but still the same issue, by the way this is python 3.6 — BryceSoker
– BryceSoker, Commented Dec 4, 2018 at 20:40

Mark · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-04 20:40:18Z

6

You can encode()the string:

string = "{'id':'other_aud1_aud2','kW':15}"
h = hexlify(string.encode())
print(h.decode())
# 7b276964273a276f746865725f617564315f61756432272c276b57273a31357d

s = unhexlify(hex).decode()
print(s) 
# {'id':'other_aud1_aud2','kW':15}

answered Dec 4, 2018 at 20:40

Mark

92.7k8 gold badges116 silver badges156 bronze badges

Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

1 Comment

BryceSoker Over a year ago

Oh didn't see the encode, yes i think that worked, thanks man.

torek · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-04 22:39:28Z

The tricky bit here is that a Python 3 string is a sequence of Unicode characters, which is not the same as a sequence of ASCII characters.

In Python2, the str type and the bytes type are synonyms, and there is a separate type, unicode, that represents a sequence of Unicode characters. This makes it something of a mystery, if you have a string: is it a sequence of bytes, or is it a sequence of characters in some character-set?

In Python3, str now means unicode and we use bytes for what used to be str. Given a string—a sequence of Unicode characters—we use encode to convert it to some byte-sequence that can represent it, if there is such a sequence:

>>> 'hello'.encode('ascii')
b'hello'
>>> 'sch\N{latin small letter o with diaeresis}n'
'schön'
>>> 'sch\N{latin small letter o with diaeresis}n'.encode('utf-8')
b'sch\xc3\xb6n'

but:

>>> 'sch\N{latin small letter o with diaeresis}n'.encode('ascii')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character '\xf6' in position 3: ordinal not in range(128)

Once you have the bytes object, you already know what to do. In Python2, if you have a str, you have a bytes object; in Python3, use .encode with your chosen encoding.

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

How to convert a full ascii string to hex in python?

2 Answers 2

1 Comment

Comments

Your Answer

Linked

Hot Network Questions

Collectives™ on Stack Overflow

2 Answers 2

1 Comment

Comments

Your Answer

Sign up or log in

Post as a guest

Linked

Related