Re: Weird list conversion

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On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 1:05 PM, KP <kai.peters@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, 13 December 2015 11:57:57 UTC-8, Laura Creighton  wrote:
>> In a message of Sun, 13 Dec 2015 11:45:19 -0800, KP writes:
>> >Hi all,
>> >
>> >      f = open("stairs.bin", "rb")
>> >      data = list(f.read(16))
>> >      print data
>> >
>> >returns
>> >
>> >['=', '\x04', '\x00', '\x05', '\x00', '\x01', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00', '\x00']
>> >
>> >The first byte of the file is 0x3D according to my hex editor, so why does Python return '=' and not '\x3D'?
>> >
>> >As always, thanks for any help!
>>
>> 0x3d is the ascii code for '='
>
> I am aware of that - so is the rule that non-printables are returned in hex notation whereas printables come in their ASCII representation?

What you're seeing there is the repr() of the string. The rule is that
it should be a printable representation that can be passed to eval to
reconstruct the string. The printable requirement means that NUL
should always come out escaped as '\x00' or perhaps '\0', but for
printable bytes escaping isn't necessary. I don't know if there's a
requirement that the repr of '\x3D' be '=', but it's probably the most
generally useful and I doubt that any implementation would depart from
that.

If you specifically want hex representations, then you could use hex(ord(foo)).

py> hex(ord('='))
'0x3d'

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Weird list conversion high5storage@gmail.com - 2015-12-13 11:45 -0800
  Re: Weird list conversion Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-12-13 20:57 +0100
    Re: Weird list conversion KP <kai.peters@gmail.com> - 2015-12-13 12:05 -0800
      Re: Weird list conversion Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> - 2015-12-13 20:28 +0000
      Re: Weird list conversion Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-12-13 13:28 -0700
      Re: Weird list conversion Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> - 2015-12-13 20:31 +0000
      Re: Weird list conversion Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2015-12-13 12:42 -0800
      Re: Weird list conversion Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 08:09 +1100
  Re: Weird list conversion Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-12-13 12:59 -0700

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