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 we take a look at the source for bytes.__repr__, it looks as if the b'' is baked into the method.

The most obvious workaround is to manually slice off the b'' from the resulting repr():

>>> x = b'\x01\x02\x03\x04'

>>> print(repr(x))
b'\x01\x02\x03\x04'

>>> print(repr(x)[2:-1])
\x01\x02\x03\x04