Roel Schroeven wrote:
> CC schreef:
>> ln = '\x00\x01\xFF 456789abcdef'
>> # This works:
>> import sys
>> for i in range(0,15):
>> sys.stdout.write( '%.2X' % ord(ln[i]) )
>> print
>> Is that the best way, to work directly on the stdout stream?
>
> It's not a bad idea: print is mostly designed to be used in interactive
> mode and for quick and dirty logging; not really for normal program
> output (though I often use it for that purpose).
>
> There is another way: construct the full output string before printing
> it. You can do that efficiently using a list comprehension and the
> string method join():
>
> >>> print ''.join(['%.2X' % ord(c) for c in ln])
> 0001FF20343536373839616263646566
Oh yeah, that's right!
> In Python 2.4 and higher, you can use a generator expression instead of
> a list comprehension:
>
> >>> print ''.join('%.2X' % ord(c) for c in ln)
> 0001FF20343536373839616263646566
Hmm. I'm at 2.3 :-(
> BTW, in your examples it's more pythonic not to use range with an index
> variable in the for-loop; you can loop directly over the contents of ln
> like this:
>
> import sys
> for c in ln:
> sys.stdout.write('%.2X' % ord(c))
> print
Ah yes, duh! I played with this means of iterating over items in a
sequence the other day while studying the tutorial, but it sinks in
slowly for a C programmer.
That's why I posted my silly code. I'll probably do that a lot until I
get used to this pythonic business.
Thanks for the input!
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