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Re: HEX to ASCII

Date 2013-10-06 20:36 +0100
From MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com>
Subject Re: HEX to ASCII
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On 06/10/2013 20:07, markotaht@gmail.com wrote:
>   problem is : Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "C:\Users\Marko\Desktop\hacker.org\XOR cypher.py", line 35, in <module>
>      print("Key-" + str(võti) + ": " + str("".join(tulemus2)))
> TypeError: sequence item 0: expected str instance, bytes found
>
> If i  take away the join command i get this:
>   Key-00000000: [b'u', b'o', b'\x00', b'\x1d', b' ', b'|', b'N', b'\x0f', b'9', b'j', b'K', b'J', b'&', b'#', b'A', b'K', b'5', b'k', b'_', b'\x1e', b',', b'j', b'\x0c', b'\x08', b'i', b'(', b'\x06', b'\\', b'r', b'3', b'\x1f', b'V', b's', b'9', b'\x1d']
>
> the Key-00000000 is the key im using to decrypt the code. everything else is generated by the decrytion process and the unhexlify command. So my guess is, the join command cant handle the b"u" type of format. how can i get rid of the b.
>
> Or does anyone have a better idea how to translate HEX into ASCII and sort out the lines that make sense
>
(I'm assuming you're using Python 3)

tulemus2 is a list of bytestrings (bytes), "" is a Unicode string
(str). You can't mix them.

Try b"".join(tulemus2) instead.

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HEX to ASCII markotaht@gmail.com - 2013-10-06 12:07 -0700
  Re: HEX to ASCII Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-10-06 21:31 +0200
  Re: HEX to ASCII MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-10-06 20:36 +0100
  Re: HEX to ASCII Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-10-06 21:27 -0400
    Re: HEX to ASCII markotaht@gmail.com - 2013-10-07 06:51 -0700
      Re: HEX to ASCII Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-10-07 11:52 -0400
        Re: HEX to ASCII markotaht@gmail.com - 2013-10-08 01:12 -0700
  Re: HEX to ASCII markotaht@gmail.com - 2013-10-07 06:54 -0700
    Re: HEX to ASCII Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-07 15:16 +0100
      Re: HEX to ASCII markotaht@gmail.com - 2013-10-08 01:13 -0700
        Re: HEX to ASCII Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-08 09:25 +0100

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