Luc schrieb:
Hi all,
I read data from a binary stream, so I get hex values as characters
(in a string) with escaped x, like "\x05\x88", instead of 0x05.
I am looking for a clean way to add these two values and turn them
into an integer, knowing that calling int() with base 16 throws an
invalid literal exception.
Any help appreciated, thanks.
Consider this (in the python interpreter):
>>> chr(255)
'\xff'
>>> chr(255) == r"\xff"
False
>>> int(r"ff", 16)
255
In other words: no, you *don't* get hex values. You get bytes from the
stream "as is", with python resorting to printing these out (in the
interpreter!!!) as "\xXX". Python does that so that binary data will
always have a "pretty" output when being inspected on the REPL.
But they are bytes, and to convert them to an integer, you call "ord" on
them.
So assuming your string is read bytewise into two variables a & b, this
is your desired code:
>>> a = "\xff"
>>> b = "\xa0"
>>> ord(a) + ord(b)
415
HTH, Diez
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