Anyone got any ideas about how to do this in Python?

[x-D]

Hey, does anyone know at all, how you would go about taking a string of text, that is stored in a variable, ie:

z = raw_input("Enter Text here: ")

to a Unicode Hex?

[x-D]

Actually, scrap that. Can you change that to 'convert it to anything that will produce a number value, when encoded?' ie - 23394394934

[DangerOnTheRanger]

Have you tried:


z = int(raw_input("Enter Text here: "))


If you want "z" to be a hexadecimal string, then use:


z = hex(int(raw_input("Enter Text here: "))

[archeryguru2000]

Actually, I believe that throws an error.


In [1]: z = hex(int(raw_input("Enter Text here: ")))
Enter Text here: hello
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)

~/<ipython console> in <module>()

ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'hello'


How about this:


z = raw_input("Enter Text here: ").encode('hex')

The output to z is:


In [2]: z = raw_input("Enter Text here: ").encode('hex')
Enter Text here: hello

In [3]: z
Out[3]: 68656c6c6f


Let us know if this is what you were wanting.
~~archery~~

[archeryguru2000]

Also, the command I posted above will also work with numbers.


In [13]: z = raw_input("Enter Text here: ").encode('hex')
Enter Text here: 123

In [1]: z
Out[1]: 313233

In [2]: z = raw_input("Enter Text here: ").encode('hex')
Enter Text here: '123'

In [3]: z
Out[3]: 2731323327

In [4]: z = raw_input("Enter Text here: ").encode('hex')
Enter Text here: 1.23

In [5]: z
Out[5]: 312e3233



Hope this helps.

~~archery~~

[DangerOnTheRanger]

Personally, I believe if the user doesn't enter a number, an exception should be thrown anyway; in the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess, and errors should never pass silently (unless explicitly silenced). Which is why I posted the snippet I did, instead of using your approach.

[archeryguru2000]

Personally, I believe if the user doesn't enter a number, an exception should be thrown anyway; in the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess, and errors should never pass silently (unless explicitly silenced). Which is why I posted the snippet I did, instead of using your approach.

I suppose so, but the OP did ask to convert a string (not a float) to hex. Just wanted to give what was asked for. Even though I see your point.

Thanks,
~~archery~~

[x-D]

Cheers for both great replies. I have learnt a lot from this. :)