string byte dump

[Jammer]

Does anyone that knows python want to write me a byte dump for strings?

I am trying to modify a plugin (that someone else wrote) that uses
interprocess communication.
It works on strings without special characters but it fails on other
stings like "Björk".

It calls decode('utf8') but I guess the strings are not utf8 so I need
to find out what is being input.

 

[Rob Wolfe]

Does anyone that knows python want to write me a byte dump for strings?

I am trying to modify a plugin (that someone else wrote) that uses
interprocess communication.
It works on strings without special characters but it fails on other
stings like "Björk".

It calls decode('utf8') but I guess the strings are not utf8 so I need
to find out what is being input.

Try this:
'616263'

 

[Jammer]

Try this:

'616263'

Awesome, thanks.

 

[John Machin]

Does anyone that knows python want to write me a byte dump for strings?

I am trying to modify a plugin (that someone else wrote) that uses
interprocess communication.
It works on strings without special characters but it fails on other
stings like "Björk".

It calls decode('utf8') but I guess the strings are not utf8 so I need
to find out what is being input.

Try the repr() built-in function. Any byte not in printable ASCII will
be displayed in hex.

| >>> foo = "\xfforick"
| >>> foou = unicode(foo, 'latin1')
| >>> foo8 = foou.encode('utf8')
| >>> print repr(foo), repr(foou), repr(foo8)
| '\xfforick' u'\xfforick' '\xc3\xbforick'