How to remove '\x' from a hex string in Python?
Solution 1
Indeed, you don't have backslashes in your string. So, that's why you can't remove them.
If you try to play with each hex character from this string (using ord()
and len()
functions - you'll see their real values. Besides, the length of your string is just 4, not 16.
You can play with several solutions to achieve your result: 'hex' encode:
'\xff\x1f\x00\xe8'.encode('hex')
'ff1f00e8'
Or use repr()
function:
repr('\xff\x1f\x00\xe8').translate(None,r'\\x')
Solution 2
One way to do what you want is:
>>> s = '\xff\x1f\x00\xe8'
>>> ''.join('%02x' % ord(c) for c in s)
'ff1f00e8'
The reason why translate
is not working is that what you are seeing is not the string itself, but its representation. In other words, \x
is not contained in the string:
>>> '\\x' in '\xff\x1f\x00\xe8'
False
\xff
, \x1f
, \x00
and \xe8
are the hexadecimal representation of for characters (in fact, len(s) == 4
, not 24
).
Solution 3
Use the encode method:
>>> s = '\xff\x1f\x00\xe8'
>>> print s.encode("hex")
'ff1f00e8'
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Updated on June 18, 2022Comments
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Ebrahim Ghasemi almost 2 years
I'm reading a
wav
audio file in Python usingwave
module. Thereadframe()
function in this library returns frames as hex string. I want to remove\x
of this string, buttranslate()
function doesn't work as I want:>>> input = wave.open(r"G:\Workspace\wav\1.wav",'r') >>> input.readframes (1) '\xff\x1f\x00\xe8' >>> '\xff\x1f\x00\xe8'.translate(None,'\\x') '\xff\x1f\x00\xe8' >>> '\xff\x1f\x00\xe8'.translate(None,'\x') ValueError: invalid \x escape >>> '\xff\x1f\x00\xe8'.translate(None,r'\x') '\xff\x1f\x00\xe8' >>>
Any way I want divide the result values by 2 and then add
\x
again and generate a newwav
file containing these new values. Does any one have any better idea?What's wrong?
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Ebrahim Ghasemi over 8 yearsDoes it have any reverse way to? I mean how can I convert 'ff1f00e8' to '\xff\x1f\x00\xe8' again? any Decode function?
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Dmitry over 8 yearsReverse:
'ff1f00e8'.decode('hex')
:) What about length - was playing with backslashes in the initial string.