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dotancohen
dotancohen

Reputation: 31501

How to see the bytes of a Python3 <class 'bytes'> object?

Considering that the bytes type is not necessarily a string, how can one see the actual bytes (ones and zeros, or octal/hexadecimal representation of such) of a bytes object? Trying to print() or pprint() such an object results in printing the string representation of the object (assuming some encoding, probably ASCII or UTF-8) preceded by the b character to indicate that the datatype is in fact bytes:

$ python3
Python 3.2.3 (default, Oct 19 2012, 19:53:16) 
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> s = 'hi'
>>> print(str(type(s)))
<class 'str'>
>>> se = s.encode('utf-8')
>>> print(str(type(se)))
<class 'bytes'>
>>> print(se)
b'hi'
>>> pprint(se)
b'hi'
>>>

Note that I am specifically referring to Python 3. Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 12660

Answers (3)

Cute.Yang
Cute.Yang

Reputation: 9

>>> s = b'hi'
>>> s
b'hi'
>>> print(s)
b'hi'
>>> for i in s:
    print(i)


104
105
>>> y = 'hi'
>>> for i in y:
    print(i)


h
i
>>>

Upvotes: -1

gecco
gecco

Reputation: 18850

Use Python string formatting to show the hexadecimal values of your bytes:

>>> se = b'hi'
>>> ["{0:0>2X}".format(b) for b in se]
['68', '69']

Upvotes: 2

Dek Dekku
Dek Dekku

Reputation: 1461

Use bin, oct or hex and access the byte using bracket notation:

>>> print(hex(se[0]))
0x68
>>> print(hex(se[1]))
0x69

Obviously a cycle will be better:

for a_byte in se:
    print (bin(a_byte))

Upvotes: 4

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