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I'm trying to find a way to print a string in hexadecimal. For example, I have this string which I then convert to its hexadecimal value.

my_string = "deadbeef"
my_hex = my_string.decode('hex')

How can I print my_hex as 0xde 0xad 0xbe 0xef?

To make my question clear... Let's say I have some data like 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04 stored in a variable. Now I need to print it in hexadecimal so that I can read it. I guess I am looking for a Python equivalent of printf("%02x", my_hex). I know there is print '{0:x}'.format(), but that won't work with my_hex and it also won't pad with zeroes.

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You mean you have a string of bytes in my_hex which you want to print out as hex numbers, right? E.g., let's take your example:

>>> my_string = "deadbeef"
>>> my_hex = my_string.decode('hex')  # python 2 only
>>> print my_hex
Þ ­ ¾ ï

This construction only works on Python 2; but you could write the same string as a literal, in either Python 2 or Python 3, like this:

my_hex = "\xde\xad\xbe\xef"

So, to the answer. Here's one way to print the bytes as hex integers:

>>> print " ".join(hex(ord(n)) for n in my_hex)
0xde 0xad 0xbe 0xef

The comprehension breaks the string into bytes, ord() converts each byte to the corresponding integer, and hex() formats each integer in the from 0x##. Then we add spaces in between.

Bonus: If you use this method with unicode strings (or Python 3 strings), the comprehension will give you unicode characters (not bytes), and you'll get the appropriate hex values even if they're larger than two digits.

Addendum: Byte strings

In Python 3 it is more likely you'll want to do this with a byte string; in that case, the comprehension already returns ints, so you have to leave out the ord() part and simply call hex() on them:

>>> my_hex = b'\xde\xad\xbe\xef'
>>> print(" ".join(hex(n) for n in my_hex))
0xde 0xad 0xbe 0xef
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Just to note this won't work on Python 3.x, while the unhexlifysolution will...
@alexis the .decode as str no longer has a decode as it's not necessary.... and b'deadbeef'.decode('hex') won't work as hex encoding has been removed
But that's just how the OP constructed the string: It's not part of the answer. hex(ord(c)) will still convert a byte into a two-digit hex number.
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Another answer with later print/format style is:

res[0]=12
res[1]=23
print("my num is 0x{0:02x}{1:02x}".format(res[0],res[1]))
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Convert the string to an integer base 16 then to hexadecimal.

print hex(int(string, base=16))

These are built-in functions.

http://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#int

Example

>>> string = 'AA'
>>> _int = int(string, base=16)
>>> _hex = hex(_int)
>>> print _int
170
>>> print _hex
0xaa
>>>
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You can try something like this I guess:

new_str = ""
str_value = "rojbasr"
for i in str_value:
    new_str += "0x%s " % (i.encode('hex'))
print new_str

Your output would be something like this:

0x72 0x6f 0x6a 0x62 0x61 0x73 0x72
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I though he wanted to translate a string into hex and not to divide it into pairs of 2 . Its my fault that i didn't saw the example output
Not your fault, if you look at the history you'll see that the original question read that way. The OP couldn't decide what to name his/her variables, but I think I fixed it for him/her...
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A way that will fail if your input string isn't valid pairs of hex characters...:

>>> import binascii
>>> ' '.join(hex(ord(i)) for i in binascii.unhexlify('deadbeef'))
'0xde 0xad 0xbe 0xef'
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Use

print " ".join("0x%s"%my_string[i:i+2] for i in range(0, len(my_string), 2))

like this:

>>> my_string = "deadbeef"
>>> print " ".join("0x%s"%my_string[i:i+2] for i in range(0, len(my_string), 2))
0xde 0xad 0xbe 0xef
>>>

On an unrelated side note ... using string as a variable name even as an example variable name is very bad practice.

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This looks like splitting a string into pairs of characters. I don't need that.
+1 for calling out using string as a variable name. Overwriting base types with variables can lead to incredibly frustrating debugging, trust me.
@Valdogg21: string isn't a base type-- that's str. It is the name of a stdlib module, however.
@DSM Woops. Major duh moment.
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to display your payload only you can write this :

    def generate_payload():
    payload = b"\x16\x85\x04\x08"
    print(len(payload))
    return payload

if __name__ == "__main__":
    payload = generate_payload()
    print("Payload (représentation des caractères):")
    print(payload)
    
    # Afficher le payload en hexadécimal
    print("\nPayload (hexadécimal):")
    print(' '.join(f'{ord(c):02x}' for c in payload))

the b characters is for considering that is base 2 even its written in hexadecimal

to display characters before payload/ characters with payload , there is :

    def generate_payload():
    payload = "A" *128 +"\x16\x85\x04\x08"
    print(len(payload))
    return payload

if __name__ == "__main__":
    payload = generate_payload()
    print("Payload (représentation des caractères):")
    print(repr(payload))
    
    # Afficher le payload en hexadécimal
    print("\nPayload (hexadécimal):")
    print(' '.join(f'{ord(c):02x}' for c in payload))

the function repr can display theses patterns of characters

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