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Author	gregory.p.smith
Recipients	Arfrever, Christian H, barry, belopolsky, eric.smith, gotgenes, gregory.p.smith, mrh1997, ncoghlan
Date	2019-05-20.06:31:33
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FYI - micropython added an optional 'sep' second argument to binascii.hexlify() that is a single character separator to insert between every two hex digits. given the #9951 .hex() methods we have everywhere (and corresponding .fromhex), binascii.hexlify is almost a legacy API. (but micropython doesn't have those methods yet). one key difference? hexlify returns the hex value as a bytes rather than a str. just adding a couple of parameters to the hex() method seems fine. a separator string and a number of bytes to separate. yet another minilanguage would be overkill. and confusing in the face of the existing numeric formatting mini language ability to insert , or _ separators every four spaces ala f'{value:_x}'.

FYI - micropython added an optional 'sep' second argument to binascii.hexlify() that is a single character separator to insert between every two hex digits.

given the #9951 .hex() methods we have everywhere (and corresponding .fromhex), binascii.hexlify is almost a legacy API.  (but micropython doesn't have those methods yet).  one key difference?  hexlify returns the hex value as a bytes rather than a str.

just adding a couple of parameters to the hex() method seems fine.  a separator string and a number of bytes to separate.

yet another minilanguage would be overkill.  and confusing in the face of the existing numeric formatting mini language ability to insert , or _ separators every four spaces ala f'{value:_x}'.

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2019-05-20 06:31:34	gregory.p.smith	set	recipients: + gregory.p.smith, barry, ncoghlan, belopolsky, eric.smith, gotgenes, Arfrever, Christian H, mrh1997
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