Suppress/ print without b' prefix for bytes in Python 3

Question

Just posting this so I can search for it later, as it always seems to stump me:

$ python3.2
Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Oct 20 2012, 14:09:50) 
[GCC 4.5.2] on lin         


        

Answer 1

If the data is in an UTF-8 compatible format, you can convert the bytes to a string.

>>> import curses
>>> print(str(curses.version, "utf-8"))
2.2

Optionally convert to hex first, if the data is not already UTF-8 compatible. E.g. when the data are actual raw bytes.

from binascii import hexlify
from codecs import encode  # alternative
>>> print(hexlify(b"\x13\x37"))
b'1337'
>>> print(str(hexlify(b"\x13\x37"), "utf-8"))
1337
>>>> print(str(encode(b"\x13\x37", "hex"), "utf-8"))
1337