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]

Jammer <as****@mail.comwrites:

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'

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HTH,
Rob

[Jammer]

Rob Wolfe wrote:

Jammer <as****@mail.comwrites:

>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]

On Jan 29, 4:57 am, Jammer <[e-mail]:

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('utf8')
| >>print repr(foo), repr(foou), repr(foo8)
| '\xfforick' u'\xfforick' '\xc3\xbforick'