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Hex dumper (Python recipe) by Sébastien Keim
ActiveState Code (http://code.activestate.com/recipes/142812/)

Hexadecimal display of a byte stream

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FILTER=''.join([(len(repr(chr(x)))==3) and chr(x) or '.' for x in range(256)])

def dump(src, length=8):
    N=0; result=''
    while src:
       s,src = src[:length],src[length:]
       hexa = ' '.join(["%02X"%ord(x) for x in s])
       s = s.translate(FILTER)
       result += "%04X   %-*s   %s\n" % (N, length*3, hexa, s)
       N+=length
    return result

s=("This 10 line function is just a sample of pyhton power "
   "for string manipulations.\n"
   "The code is \x07even\x08 quite readable!")

print dump(s)

This function produce a classic 3 columns hex dump of a string. * The first column print the offset in hexadecimal. * The second colmun print the hexadecimal byte values. * The third column print ASCII values or a dot for non printable characters.

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2 comments

Raymond Hettinger 18 years, 7 months ago  # | flag

Small Improvements.

def dump2(src, length=8):
    result=[]
    for i in xrange(0, len(src), length):
       s = src[i:i+length]
       hexa = ' '.join(["%02X"%ord(x) for x in s])
       printable = s.translate(FILTER)
       result.append("%04X   %-*s   %s\n" % (i, length*3, hexa, printable))
    return ''.join(result)
George V. Reilly 14 years, 7 months ago  # | flag

This version is unicode-aware, but makes no attempt to display characters outside the 7-bit printable ASCII range -- too difficult in a Windows console.

def hexdump(src, length=8):
    result = []
    digits = 4 if isinstance(src, unicode) else 2
    for i in xrange(0, len(src), length):
       s = src[i:i+length]
       hexa = b' '.join(["%0*X" % (digits, ord(x))  for x in s])
       text = b''.join([x if 0x20 <= ord(x) < 0x7F else b'.'  for x in s])
       result.append( b"%04X   %-*s   %s" % (i, length*(digits + 1), hexa, text) )
    return b'\n'.join(result)
Created by Sébastien Keim on Mon, 5 Aug 2002 (PSF)
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