ubinascii – binary/ASCII conversions

This module implements conversions between binary data and various encodings of it in ASCII form (in both directions).

Functions

ubinascii.hexlify(data[, sep])

Convert binary data to hexadecimal representation. Returns bytes string.

Difference to CPython

If additional argument, sep is supplied, it is used as a separator between hexadecimal values.

ubinascii.unhexlify(data)

Convert hexadecimal data to binary representation. Returns bytes string. (i.e. inverse of hexlify)

ubinascii.a2b_base64(data)

Convert Base64-encoded data to binary representation. Returns bytes string.

ubinascii.b2a_base64(data)

Encode binary data in Base64 format. Returns string.

ubinascii.crc32(data[, value])

Compute CRC-32, the 32-bit checksum of data, starting with an initial CRC of value. The default initial CRC is zero. The algorithm is consistent with the ZIP file checksum. Since the algorithm is designed for use as a checksum algorithm, it is not suitable for use as a general hash algorithm. Use as follows:

import ubinascii
print(ubinascii.crc32(b"hello world"))

# Or, in two pieces:

crc = ubinascii.crc32(b"hello")
crc = ubinascii.crc32(b" world", crc)
print('crc32 = {:#010x}'.format(crc))