> Under Python 3, subprocess.check_output returns a bytestring that > doesn't parse. Since the CLI program (written in the 1990's) will > never send Unicode, is there a way to downconvert the bytestring into > type str so as to emulate Py2.6 behavior?
What do you mean by "that doesn't parse"? Returning a byte string is *already* emulating 2.6's behaviour: in 2.6, you also get a byte string, and most likely the very same string. > Or alternatively, is there a whizbang Py3 method to parse out strings > delimited by hex? I tried several tricks but it is all beyond my > skills. Please understand that there really aren't "hex characters" here. Each individual character is a byte, i.e. "Sun" == "\x53\x75\x6d". So the strings you get aren't delimited by a "hex character", but by a "control character". That said: how did you try to parse it, and how did that fail? Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
