Python transform ascii hex to actual hex

Question

How to transform this unicode hex string ?

u'\x95\x93\xdfn\xe3D\x18\xc5q\xebv\xb3\xb4\xbb\x80\xb4H+\x84P\x05W,$\xfe......'

To real this hex

'\x95\x93\xdf\x6e\xe3\x44\x18\xc5\x71\xeb...'

Possible duplicate of Python3 - How to convert a string to hex (see the answer from acw1668) — Nick is tired
– Nick is tired, Commented Apr 24, 2019 at 12:02
Have a look at this question here it might be able to give an idea — Ivan of uganda
– Ivan of uganda, Commented Apr 24, 2019 at 12:03
The unicode hex string isn't a string, but it contains hex values — Slake
– Slake, Commented Apr 24, 2019 at 12:08
"hex" is is a bit ambiguous. Do you mean "a string that completely consists of \x escape codes"? Can you also explain in one sentence what you are planning to use this for - partly because I don't know what this would be good for, but if nothing else then because people who are trying to do this same thing can find this thread more easily. — Tomalak
– Tomalak, Commented Apr 24, 2019 at 12:48

SpghttCd · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-24 12:40:40Z

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You could try

s = u'\x95\x93\xdfn\xe3D\x18\xc5q\xebv\xb3\xb4\xbb\x80\xb4H+\x84P\x05W,$'
s.encode('latin')

# b'\x95\x93\xdfn\xe3D\x18\xc5q\xebv\xb3\xb4\xbb\x80\xb4H+\x84P\x05W,$'

answered Apr 24, 2019 at 12:40

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SpghttCd Over a year ago

@snakecharmerb I'm not too deep into unicode, but afaik this is the same. The point here was to use the proper encoding, which in this case is Latin_1 (and e.g. not utf-8, cp1250, asciior whatever). And these encodings have several aliases, so latin works as well, and so does latin-1.

SpghttCd Over a year ago

@snakecharmerb You're welcome - I learned it also today; see e.g. here: docs.python.org/2.4/lib/standard-encodings.html

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