Question

I have a negative integer (4 bytes) of which I would like to have the hexadecimal form of its two’s complement representation.

>>> i = int("-312367")
>>> "{0}".format(i)
'-312367'
>>> "{0:x}".format(i)
'-4c42f'

But I would like to see “FF…”

Answer 1

Here’s a way (for 16 bit numbers):

>>> x=-123
>>> hex(((abs(x) ^ 0xffff) + 1) & 0xffff)
'0xff85'

(Might not be the most elegant way, though)