I am using the dpkt python module to parse a pcap file. I'm looking deep enough into the packets that some of the data is represented as byte streams. I can convert from regular byte strings easily enough, however some of the byte strings appear as:
\t\x01\x1c\x88
The first value should be 09, however for some reason it's using an escaped tab character. (the hex code of a tab is 09).
It's doing this for other characters in other streams as well.
Some more sample outputs:
\x10\x00@\x00\
\x05q\x00\x00\
\x069\x9c\n\x00
So my question is: can I convert this byte stream to one without these extra characters?
Alternatively, how would I go about converting something like '\t' to hex so that it returns '09'?
Update:
Turns out that I was creating the strings to be converted using a function that would return \t011c88 in place of the first stream.
Leaving it alone and using stream.encode("hex") worked
The repr function by default escapes all non-printable characters like you've seen.
To get a hex-only representation, use
string.encode("hex")
NOTE: The original bytestream is correct, you should only convert to hex for viewing purposes rather than integity purposes. It only shows the data in a strange way.