How to display a byte array as hex values

Question

>>> struct.pack(\'2I\',12, 30)
b\'\\x0c\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x1e\\x00\\x00\\x00\'    
>>> struct.pack(\'2I\',12, 31)
b\'\\x0c\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x1f\\x00\\         


        

Answer 1

You have to reformat it yourself if you want \x escapes everywhere; e.g.,

>>> import struct
>>> r = struct.pack('2I',12, 33)
>>> r
b'\x0c\x00\x00\x00!\x00\x00\x00'
>>> list(r)
[12, 0, 0, 0, 33, 0, 0, 0]
>>> print("".join("\\x%02x" % i for i in r))
\x0c\x00\x00\x00\x21\x00\x00\x00