Check if a string is hexadecimal

Question

I know the easiest way is using a regular expression, but I wonder if there are other ways to do this check.

Why do I need this? I am writing a Python script that re

Answer 1

In Python3, I tried:

def is_hex(s):
    try:
        tmp=bytes.fromhex(hex_data).decode('utf-8')
        return ''.join([i for i in tmp if i.isprintable()])
    except ValueError:
        return ''

It should be better than the way: int(x, 16)