Function hex_to_bin

src/borg/helpers/parseformat.py:50–58

(hex, length=None)

def hex_to_bin(hex, length=None):
    try:
        binary = binascii.unhexlify(hex)
        binary_len = len(binary)
        if length is not None and binary_len != length:
            raise ValueError(f"Expected {length} bytes ({2 * length} hex digits), got {binary_len} bytes.")
    except binascii.Error as e:
        raise ValueError(str(e)) from None
    return binary


def safe_decode(s, coding="utf-8", errors="surrogateescape"):