Python Struct Question, decimal 10, \n and \x0a.

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Why is decimal 10 appearing as \n and not \x0a ? It is after all hex value \x0a.

Python replaces known ASCII characters with their representation as Escape Sequences.

Documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexi...l#literals

These special characters are not all printable. The newline character is only shown in the representation of a str/bytes object. Printing a str -> Newline characters creates a newline. Printing bytes with newline -> Newline Character is not interpreted.

If you need a different representation of binary data, then try binascii.hexlify and binascii.unhexlify. Instead of a str with mixed hexadecimal escape sequences and ascii, you get a hexdecimal string.