Python 3.1.1 string to hex

Question

I am trying to use str.encode() but I get

>>> \"hello\".encode(hex)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \"\", line 1         


        

Answer 1

You've already got some good answers, but I thought you might be interested in a bit of the background too.

Firstly you're missing the quotes. It should be:

"hello".encode("hex")

Secondly this codec hasn't been ported to Python 3.1. See here. It seems that they haven't yet decided whether or not these codecs should be included in Python 3 or implemented in a different way.

If you look at the diff file attached to that bug you can see the proposed method of implementing it:

import binascii
output = binascii.b2a_hex(input)