I have a long sequence of hex digits in a string, such as
000000000000484240FA063DE5D0B744ADBED63A81FAEA390000C8428640A43D5005BD44
only much longer, several kilobytes. Is there a builtin way to convert this to a bytes object in python 2.6/3?
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In a python source code I stumbled upon I’ve seen a small b before a string like in:
b”abcdef”
I know about the u prefix signifying a unicode string, and the r prefix for a raw string literal.
What does the b stand for and in which kind of source code is it useful as it seems to be exactly like a plain string without any prefix?
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I’m currently working on an encryption/decryption program and I need to be able to convert bytes to an integer. I know that:
bytes([3]) = b’\x03′
Yet I cannot find out how to do the inverse. What am I doing terribly wrong?
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I am working with a library which returns a byte string and I need to convert this to a string.
Although I’m not sure what the difference is – if any.
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I’ve very recently migrated to Python 3.5.
This code was working properly in Python 2.7:
with open(fname, ‘rb’) as f:
lines = [x.strip() for x in f.readlines()]
for line in lines:
tmp = line.strip().lower()
if ‘some-pattern’ in tmp: continue
# … code
After upgrading to 3.5, I’m getting the:
TypeError: a bytes-like object is re….