"1deadbeef3".decode('hex')
# Out: '\x1d\xea\xdb\xee\xf3'
'\x1d\xea\xdb\xee\xf3'.encode('hex')
# Out: 1deadbeef3
"1deadbeef3".decode('hex')
# Traceback (most recent call last):
# File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
# AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'
b"1deadbeef3".decode('hex')
# Traceback (most recent call last):
# File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
# LookupError: 'hex' is not a text encoding; use codecs.decode() to handle arbitrary codecs
'\x1d\xea\xdb\xee\xf3'.encode('hex')
# Traceback (most recent call last):
# File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
# LookupError: 'hex' is not a text encoding; use codecs.encode() to handle arbitrary codecs
b'\x1d\xea\xdb\xee\xf3'.encode('hex')
# Traceback (most recent call last):
# File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
# AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'encode'
However, as suggested by the error message, you can use the codecs module to achieve the same result:
import codecs
codecs.decode('1deadbeef4', 'hex')
# Out: b'\x1d\xea\xdb\xee\xf4'
codecs.encode(b'\x1d\xea\xdb\xee\xf4', 'hex')
# Out: b'1deadbeef4'
Note that codecs.encode returns a bytes object. To obtain a str object just decode to ASCII:
codecs.encode(b'\x1d\xea\xdb\xee\xff', 'hex').decode('ascii')
# Out: '1deadbeeff'
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