how to convert a string to hex

[ichabod801]

str.encode gives you the bytes representation of the string. From that you can use the hex method to get the hex values:

>>> s = 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.'.encode('utf-8')
>>> s
b'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.'
>>> s.hex()
'54686520717569636b2062726f776e20666f78206a756d7073206f76657220746865206c617a7920646f672e'

That's Python 3.x of course. Sting handling was one of the big changes between 2.x and 3.x.