Python flask API to receive hex data

Question

I am creating a python api which will receive a hexadecimal data like below:

AA213FD51B3801043FBC

I have to further decode to make it human readable string which I can do easily. Normally I have designed flask api to receive json data like below:

@app.route('/', methods=['POST'])
def hello():
    raw_data = request.get_json()

but not sure how to receive hex data. Can anyone please suggest any idea. Thanks

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58364186/hexstring-to-packed-ebcdic-string/58364937#58364937 might be helpful. — caot, Oct 20 '19 at 20:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '19 at 20:17

you can receive hexdata as a string and then use the int function to turn the value into a number with base 10

int('AA213FD51B3801043FBC',16)

to convert it to a hex number with base 16 apply

hex(int('AA213FD51B3801043FBC',16))

you can then use it for hex calculations e.g.

hex(int('AA213FD51B3801043FBC',16)) + hex(10)

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