Skip to main content

A Python module for writing hex string content to a file.

Project description

hex2file

A Python module for writing hex string content to a file.

What it does

Writes ascii hex strings to a file directly as in binary hex format. The string can be multi-line or single-line and 0x-prefixed or not. Excess whitespace in the input is ignored.

The following input (multi-line string):
0xFF00FF00
0xAABBCCDD
0x12345678
98765432 3456789A

Would result in the following file content:
FF00FF00AABBCCDD12345678987654323456789A

Compatibility

Python 2/3 compatible.

Install

Get the module via pip: pip install hex2file. Once installed 'hex2file' will be added to your path and the module will be available for importing in your Python projects.

Usage

Command Line

When pip installed, hex2file is added to your path. It can accept input directly from stdin or from a file with the '-f' flag. See hex2file --help.

Example: echo "0xFF00FF00" | hex2file /tmp/test

Library

The module can also be imported into a Python project. After installing it simply import hex2file and use hex2file.write().

Testing

Run the tests using python setup.py test from the root directory of this repository.

Project details


Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

hex2file-1.1.1.tar.gz (3.7 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

File details

Details for the file hex2file-1.1.1.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: hex2file-1.1.1.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 3.7 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: twine/1.11.0 pkginfo/1.4.2 requests/2.19.1 setuptools/40.0.0 requests-toolbelt/0.8.0 tqdm/4.24.0 CPython/3.6.5

File hashes

Hashes for hex2file-1.1.1.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 a3d55a649bbf2c71c2d71726fe636cae0bb43339557f80c2dc3bab2319ba42bd
MD5 48bd8f294190ff0d0a2ac7012d2981e8
BLAKE2b-256 7b37c52da9d937ee1ba075014640012c69a53baee95bb26e263c045a00450806

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page