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# Copyright 2008-2018 pydicom authors. See LICENSE file for details.
"""Miscellaneous utility routines relating to hex and byte strings"""
from binascii import a2b_hex, b2a_hex
from pydicom.charset import default_encoding
def hex2bytes(hexstring: str | bytes) -> bytes:
"""Return bytestring for a string of hex bytes separated by whitespace
This is useful for creating specific byte sequences for testing, using
python's implied concatenation for strings with comments allowed.
Examples
--------
::
hex_string = (
"08 00 32 10 " # (0008,1032) SQ "Procedure Code Sequence"
"08 00 00 00 " # length 8
"fe ff 00 e0 " # (FFFE,E000) Item Tag
)
byte_string = hex2bytes(hex_string)
Note in the example that all lines except the first must
start with a space, alternatively the space could
end the previous line.
"""
# This works in both 3.x and 2.x because the first conditional evaluates to
# true in 2.x so the difference in bytes constructor doesn't matter
if isinstance(hexstring, bytes):
return a2b_hex(hexstring.replace(b" ", b""))
if isinstance(hexstring, str):
return a2b_hex(bytes(hexstring.replace(" ", ""), default_encoding))
raise TypeError("argument shall be bytes or string type")
def bytes2hex(byte_string: bytes) -> str:
"""Return a hex string representation of encoded bytes."""
s = b2a_hex(byte_string).decode()
return " ".join(s[i : i + 2] for i in range(0, len(s), 2))