Function unhexlify_str

bitcoin/rpc.py:44–63

Converts a string containing hexadecimal encoding into a bytes-object. It works by encoding the given string h as ASCII, then interpreting each of its two-character ASCII tuples as bytes: - "00" to byte 0 - "ff" to byte 255 - "FF" also to byte 255 The strin

(h)

DEFAULT_HTTP_TIMEOUT = 30

def unhexlify_str(h):
    """
    Converts a string containing hexadecimal encoding into a bytes-object.

    It works by encoding the given string h as ASCII, then interpreting each of
    its two-character ASCII tuples as bytes:
        - "00" to byte 0
        - "ff" to byte 255
        - "FF" also to byte 255

    The string must only contain characters in the ranges 0-9, a-f and A-F.

    If the string contains characters not in ASCII,
        UnicodeEncodeError is raised.
    If the string contains out-of-range ASCII characters,
        binascii.Error is raised.
    If number of encoded ASCII bytes is odd,
        binascii.Error is raised.
    """
    return binascii.unhexlify(h.encode('ascii'))

def hexlify_str(b):
    """