I don't know how to convert Python's bitarray to string if it contains non-ASCII bytes. Example:
>>> string='\x9f'
>>> array=bytearray(string)
>>> array
bytearray(b'\x9f')
>>> array.decode()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x9f in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
In my example, I just want to somehow get a string '\x9f' back from the bytearray. Is that possible?
In Python 2, just pass it to str():
>>> import sys; sys.version_info
sys.version_info(major=2, minor=7, micro=8, releaselevel='final', serial=0)
>>> string='\x9f'
>>> array=bytearray(string)
>>> array
bytearray(b'\x9f')
>>> str(array)
'\x9f'
In Python 3, you'd want to convert it back to a bytes object:
>>> bytes(array)
b'\x9f'
Did you try
byteVariable.decode('utf-8')
I'd like to mention the binascii library that comes with Python.
My use case: I was querying a database that had a binary field being used as a key within the DB. I wanted to pull that binary field and treat it as a key elsewhere. I thought converting it to a string was the best use-case.
binascii offered me a better alternative:
import binascii
binary_field = bytearray(b'\x92...')
binascii.hexlify(binary_field)
binascii module is very useful.use bytes(array, encoding='utf8')
