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Asked: 2026-05-13T07:50:49+00:00

I would like to encode ITSATEST to it’s netbios name value in python; The

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I would like to encode “ITSATEST” to it’s netbios name value in python;
The occurence table and explication are here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/194203

I dont know how this could be done easily in python, someone can give me a hand ?

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    You can map each nibble of the original string, taking its numerical value and offsetting from ‘A’:

    encoded_name = ''.join([chr((ord(c)>>4) + ord('A'))
                        + chr((ord(c)&0xF) + ord('A')) for c in original_name])
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