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Function becomes useful when we need hex value of crc32() result, even if it is negative.

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import binascii

def crc2hex(crc):
    res=''
    for i in range(4):
        t=crc & 0xFF
        crc >>= 8
        res='%02X%s' % (t, res)
    return res

if __name__=='__main__':
    test='hello world! and Python too ;)'
    crc=binascii.crc32(test)
    print 'CRC:', crc
    print 'CRC in hex:', crc2hex(crc)

6 comments

Martin Miller 16 years, 4 months ago  # | flag

A special formatting function is not needed. You can easily convert a 32 bit numeric value into an 8 byte hex string without writting a special function to do it by just using string objects' built-in %operator.

Note the final line in the following:

import binascii

test='hello world! and Python too ;)'
crc=binascii.crc32(test)
print 'CRC:', crc
print 'CRC in hex: %08X' % crc

...RTFM?

panda gorl 15 years, 8 months ago  # | flag

even if is it negative? i don't think so

Thimo Kraemer 14 years, 1 month ago  # | flag

You could use the following statement:

'%08X' % (binascii.crc32(test) & 0xffffffff)

Denis Barmenkov (author) 12 years, 4 months ago  # | flag

Yes, it works. However, I prefer to use well-debugged function instead of using nuts-and-bolts in print statement. Thank you!

Michael Griffin 9 years, 1 month ago  # | flag

This works great.

However the million dollar question: If I use:

  1. test = 'some random string'
  2. crc32 = '%08X' % (binascii.crc32(test) & 0xffffffff)
  3. print crc32

I get: E6408FC7

How do I convert E6408FC7 or crc32 back to 'some random string'?

Thanks.

Hi Michael, it is impossible to restore source string from CRC32, you only can brute force strings which have the same CRC32 value ;).

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function#Non-invertible