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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:50:33 -0500
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On 08/31/12 22:41, contro opinion wrote:
>>>>>> u"english".encode("utf-8")
>>> 'english'
>>>>>> u"english".encode("ascii")
>>> 'english'
>>>
>>> how can i get 656e676c697368 in encode method?
>>
>> At least in 2.x, you can do:
>>
>>  >>> u"english".encode("hex")
>>  '656e676c697368'
>
> how about in python3.0?

Well, in 3.1.3 at least, using the u"..." notation dies on me with
an invalid syntax.  However, as Ian suggests, you can do

  my_str = "english"
  "".join("%02x" % c for c in my_str.encode("ascii"))

or whatever other encoding you want instead of "ascii".

-tkc