CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonbyteasciipython-3.8
annes
annes

Reputation: 143

Putting decoded bytes in dict changes back to original?

I am trying to decode some bytes to ASCII, but when decoding to ASCII and putting it in a dict, it changes back to the bytes format (?)

b = b'Hello\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'

print(b.decode('ascii')) # Hello
converted = b.decode('ascii')
print(converted, type(converted))  # Hello <class 'str'>

test_dict = {}
test_dict["converted"] = converted
print(test_dict) # {'converted': 'Helloo\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00'} ???

Does anyone know what is going on here?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 148

Answers (1)

Freddy Mcloughlan
Freddy Mcloughlan

Reputation: 4496

If you're looking to remove the null character \x00, use replace:

converted = b.decode('ascii').replace("\x00", "")

With your dictionary code, you get:

{'converted': 'Hello'}

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions