How to print python Byte variable?

Question

I have this byte variable

testByte = b"\x02\x00\x30\x03\x35"

I would like to print it out

I've tried:

listTestByte = list(testByte)

However, I'm getting

[2, 0, 48, 3, 35]

I'm expecting it to be:

[2, 0, 30, 3, 35]

Answer 1

What you have are hexadecimal values. So what you're getting is what you should be getting. (Except that you should be getting [2, 0, 48, 3, 53] and not [2, 0, 48, 3, 35].)

If you want the list to have what you have in hexadecimal you can try converting it back to hexadecimal.

testByte = b"\x02\x00\x30\x03\x35"
listTestByte = list(testByte)
print(listTestByte)             # [2, 0, 48, 3, 53]
listTestByteAsHex = [int(hex(x).split('x')[-1]) for x in listTestByte]
print(listTestByteAsHex)        # [2, 0, 30, 3, 35]

Or use string operations, to split at '\x' depending on your purpose.