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Python Struct Question, decimal 10, \n and \x0a. - 3python - Aug-11-2023
Can someone explain why the decimal value 10, when in Python Struct is showing as \n, and not \x0a?
import struct
marDept5 = struct.pack("b", 10)
print(marDept5)
marDept5a = struct.pack("h", 10)
print(marDept5a)
marDept5b = struct.pack("i", 10)
print(marDept5b)
print("this is decimal 10, struct.pack("b", 10))
print("this is decimal 11, struct.pack("b", 11))
print("this is decimal 12, struct.pack("b", 12))Output:b'\n'
b'\n\x00'
b'\n\x00\x00\x00'
this is decimal 10, b'\n'
this is decimal 11, b'\x0b'
this is decimal 12, b'\x0c'RE: Python Struct Question, decimal 10, \n and \x0a. - DeaD_EyE - Aug-11-2023
(Aug-11-2023, 06:39 AM)3python Wrote: Why is decimal 10 appearing as \n and not \x0a ? It is after all hex value \x0a.
Python replaces known ASCII characters with their representation as Escape Sequences.
Documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#literals
These special characters are not all printable. The newline character is only shown in the representation of a str/bytes object. Printing a str -> Newline characters creates a newline. Printing bytes with newline -> Newline Character is not interpreted.
If you need a different representation of binary data, then try
binascii.hexlify and binascii.unhexlify. Instead of a str with mixed hexadecimal escape sequences and ascii, you get a hexdecimal string.
RE: Python Struct Question, decimal 10, \n and \x0a. - 3python - Aug-11-2023
Thank you DeaD_EyE! This makes sense now.