Question

I am interested in taking in a single character.

c = 'c' # for example
hex_val_string = char_to_hex_string(c)
print hex_val_string

output:

63

What is the simplest way of going about this? Any predefined string library stuff?

Answer 1

There are several ways of doing this:

>>> hex(ord("c"))
'0x63'
>>> format(ord("c"), "x")
'63'
>>> import codecs
>>> codecs.encode(b"c", "hex")
b'63'

On Python 2, you can also use the hex encoding like this (doesn’t work on Python 3+):

>>> "c".encode("hex")
'63'