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Author	martin.panter
Recipients	docs@python, martin.panter
Date	2016-12-18.10:52:30
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Message-id	<1482058351.49.0.0302572495626.issue29004@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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If I had known this it would have saved me getting a separate implementation working. >>> hex(binascii.crc_hqx(b"\x01", 0)) '0x1021' https://files.stairways.com/other/binhex-40-specs-info.txt Documenting this might helped many other people. Top Google hits seem oblivious to crc_hqx(), using other CRC implementations, and even other helper functions from the binascii module: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/crc16 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26204060/calculate-crc-ccitt-0xffff-for-hex-string

If I had known this it would have saved me getting a separate implementation working.

>>> hex(binascii.crc_hqx(b"\x01", 0))
'0x1021'
https://files.stairways.com/other/binhex-40-specs-info.txt

Documenting this might helped many other people. Top Google hits seem oblivious to crc_hqx(), using other CRC implementations, and even other helper functions from the binascii module:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/crc16
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26204060/calculate-crc-ccitt-0xffff-for-hex-string

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