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Python format hex number

I need to send a string via tcp. One of the first sections of the string is the length of the command variable
Example:
command = STATUS?UPDATE
I need to send the following string below
sendCommand = '\x00\x00\x00'+STRINGLENGTH+'\x02'+command+'\x0D\x0A'
My string length is 11 so I need STRINGLENGTH to be the hex equivalent of 11, which is 0xB, except that I need it to output as \x0B
Padding it with the leading 0 is easy, but I cannot get it to output as \x instead of 0x, and if I do a string replace it is treated as text and not as hex, so it doesn't work.
My final hex string should be:
\x00\x00\x00\x0B\x02\x53\x54\x41\x54\x55\x53\x3f\x55\x53\x45\x52\x0D\x0A
I am instead getting:
\x00\x00\x000x0B\x02\x53\x54\x41\x54\x55\x53\x3f\x55\x53\x45\x52\x0D\x0A
Any ideas on how to format it correctly?

So, this is a bit of a round-about fashion, but use a bytes object:
>>> STRINGLENGTH = bytes([11]).decode()
>>> endCommand = '\x00\x00\x00'+STRINGLENGTH+'\x02'
>>> endCommand
'\x00\x00\x00\x0b\x02'
Almost certainly, you are going to want to change your str object back to a bytes object, but the above should get you going.
I suspect what you were doing was using the hex function:
>>> STRINGLENGTH = hex(11)
>>> endCommand = '\x00\x00\x00'+STRINGLENGTH+'\x02'
>>> endCommand
'\x00\x00\x000xb\x02'
The fundamental thing you need to understand is that you aren't working with "hex", you are working with bytes. Hex is just how bytes are traditionally represented. The hex helper function returns a hexadecimal representation, as a string of an integer. But that isn't what you want. You want the byte corresponding to the value 11.
Note, for the ascii-range, chr(i) might works as well, so
>>> STRINGLENGTH = chr(11)
>>> endCommand = '\x00\x00\x00'+STRINGLENGTH+'\x02'
>>> endCommand
'\x00\x00\x00\x0b\x02'
But be careful, say you wanted the number 129, you have to care about the encoding...
>>> chr(129)
'\x81'
But in bytes, in UTF-8, that's actually represented by two different bytes
>>> chr(129).encode()
b'\xc2\x81'
>>> list(chr(129).encode())
[194, 129]
Which of course, depends on the encoding:
>>> chr(129).encode('latin')
b'\x81'
>>> list(chr(129).encode('latin'))
[129]
>>>
For that reason, I think it is safer to stick with the slightly wordier:
>>> bytes([129])
b'\x81'

Encode string as octal utf-8 Python 3

Is there a good way to encode strings to utf-8, but in octal format instead of the default hexadecimal?
For example:
>>> "õ".encode("utf-8")
b'\xc3\xb5'
Here the output is hex, not octal. The output in octal would be: b'\303\265'
Python 3 automatically handles the decoding just fine:
>>> b"\xc3\xb5".decode("utf-8")
'õ'
>>> b'\303\265'.decode("utf-8")
'õ'
Is there a codec or option I'm missing? I'd like to avoid a lot of manual string manipulation.
update: I had misunderstood -- there is no difference between b"\xc3\xb5" and b'\303\265' at all, rather they are just 2 different ways to display the same underlying byte code. In fact:
>>> b"\xc3\xb5" == b'\303\265'
True

Here's a class that overrides the representation of the string it wraps:
>>> class OctUTF8:
... def __init__(self,s):
... self.s = s.encode()
... def __repr__(self):
... return "b'" + ''.join(f'\\{n:03o}' for n in self.s) + "'"
...
>>> s='õ'
>>> OctUTF8(s)
b'\303\265'
This representation can be evaluated as a byte string and decoded back to the original:
>>> eval(repr(OctUTF8(s))).decode()
'õ'

First, you can use ord() to convert a character in a string to it's Unicode form, then, you can use oct():
print(oct(ord("õ")))
Output:
0o365

You can convert each byte in a bytes object to it's octal representation
[oct(b) for b in "õ".encode("utf-8")]
Gives
['0o303', '0o265']
You can manipulate the results to convert it to your desired output

Characters Transform in Python [duplicate]

I have a set of UTF-8 octets and I need to convert them back to unicode code points. How can I do this in python.
e.g. UTF-8 octet ['0xc5','0x81'] should be converted to 0x141 codepoint.

Python 3.x:
In Python 3.x, str is the class for Unicode text, and bytes is for containing octets.
If by "octets" you really mean strings in the form '0xc5' (rather than '\xc5') you can convert to bytes like this:
>>> bytes(int(x,0) for x in ['0xc5', '0x81'])
b'\xc5\x81'
You can then convert to str (ie: Unicode) using the str constructor...
>>> str(b'\xc5\x81', 'utf-8')
'Ł'
...or by calling .decode('utf-8') on the bytes object:
>>> b'\xc5\x81'.decode('utf-8')
'Ł'
>>> hex(ord('Ł'))
'0x141'
Pre-3.x:
Prior to 3.x, the str type was a byte array, and unicode was for Unicode text.
Again, if by "octets" you really mean strings in the form '0xc5' (rather than '\xc5') you can convert them like this:
>>> ''.join(chr(int(x,0)) for x in ['0xc5', '0x81'])
'\xc5\x81'
You can then convert to unicode using the constructor...
>>> unicode('\xc5\x81', 'utf-8')
u'\u0141'
...or by calling .decode('utf-8') on the str:
>>> '\xc5\x81'.decode('utf-8')
u'\u0141'

In lovely 3.x, where all strs are Unicode, and bytes are what strs used to be:
>>> s = str(bytes([0xc5, 0x81]), 'utf-8')
>>> s
'Ł'
>>> ord(s)
321
>>> hex(ord(s))
'0x141'
Which is what you asked for.

l = ['0xc5','0x81']
s = ''.join([chr(int(c, 16)) for c in l]).decode('utf8')
s
>>> u'\u0141'

>>> "".join((chr(int(x,16)) for x in ['0xc5','0x81'])).decode("utf8")
u'\u0141'

Python get character code in different encoding?

Given a character code as integer number in one encoding, how can you get the character code in, say, utf-8 and again as integer?

UTF-8 is a variable-length encoding, so I'll assume you really meant "Unicode code point". Use chr() to convert the character code to a character, decode it, and use ord() to get the code point.
>>> ord(chr(145).decode('koi8-r'))
9618

You can only map an "integer number" from one encoding to another if they are both single-byte encodings.
Here's an example using "iso-8859-15" and "cp1252" (aka "ANSI"):
>>> s = u'€'
>>> s.encode('iso-8859-15')
'\xa4'
>>> s.encode('cp1252')
'\x80'
>>> ord(s.encode('cp1252'))
128
>>> ord(s.encode('iso-8859-15'))
164
Note that ord is here being used to get the ordinal number of the encoded byte. Using ord on the original unicode string would give its unicode code point:
>>> ord(s)
8364
The reverse operation to ord can be done using either chr (for codes in the range 0 to 127) or unichr (for codes in the range 0 to sys.maxunicode):
>>> print chr(65)
A
>>> print unichr(8364)
€
For multi-byte encodings, a simple "integer number" mapping is usually not possible.
Here's the same example as above, but using "iso-8859-15" and "utf-8":
>>> s = u'€'
>>> s.encode('iso-8859-15')
'\xa4'
>>> s.encode('utf-8')
'\xe2\x82\xac'
>>> [ord(c) for c in s.encode('iso-8859-15')]
[164]
>>> [ord(c) for c in s.encode('utf-8')]
[226, 130, 172]
The "utf-8" encoding uses three bytes to encode the same character, so a one-to-one mapping is not possible. Having said that, many encodings (including "utf-8") are designed to be ASCII-compatible, so a mapping is usually possible for codes in the range 0-127 (but only trivially so, because the code will always be the same).

Here's an example of how the encode/decode dance works:
>>> s = b'd\x06' # perhaps start with bytes encoded in utf-16
>>> map(ord, s) # show those bytes as integers
[100, 6]
>>> u = s.decode('utf-16') # turn the bytes into unicode
>>> print u # show what the character looks like
٤
>>> print ord(u) # show the unicode code point as an integer
1636
>>> t = u.encode('utf-8') # turn the unicode into bytes with a different encoding
>>> map(ord, t) # show that encoding as integers
[217, 164]
Hope this helps :-)
If you need to construct the unicode directly from an integer, use unichr:
>>> u = unichr(1636)
>>> print u
٤

python - problems with regular expression and unicode

Hi I have a problem in python. I try to explain my problem with an example.
I have this string:
>>> string = 'ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿÀÁÂÃ'
>>> print string
ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿÀÁÂÃ
and i want, for example, replace charachters different from Ñ,Ã,ï with ""
i have tried:
>>> rePat = re.compile('[^ÑÃï]',re.UNICODE)
>>> print rePat.sub("",string)
�Ñ�����������������������������ï�������������������Ã
I obtained this �.
I think that it's happen because this type of characters in python are represented by two position in the vector: for example \xc3\x91 = Ñ.
For this, when i make the regolar expression, all the \xc3 are not substitued. How I can do this type of sub?????
Thanks
Franco

You need to make sure that your strings are unicode strings, not plain strings (plain strings are like byte arrays).
Example:
>>> string = 'ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿÀÁÂÃ'
>>> type(string)
<type 'str'>
# do this instead:
# (note the u in front of the ', this marks the character sequence as a unicode literal)
>>> string = u'\xd0\xd1\xd2\xd3\xd4\xd5\xd6\xd7\xd8\xd9\xda\xdb\xdc\xdd\xde\xdf\xe0\xe1\xe2\xe3\xe4\xe5\xe6\xe7\xe8\xe9\xea\xeb\xec\xed\xee\xef\xf0\xf1\xf2\xf3\xf4\xf5\xf6\xf7\xf8\xf9\xfa\xfb\xfc\xfd\xfe\xff\xc0\xc1\xc2\xc3'
# or:
>>> string = 'ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿÀÁÂÃ'.decode('utf-8')
# ... but be aware that the latter will only work if the terminal (or source file) has utf-8 encoding
# ... it is a best practice to use the \xNN form in unicode literals, as in the first example
>>> type(string)
<type 'unicode'>
>>> print string
ÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿÀÁÂÃ
>>> rePat = re.compile(u'[^\xc3\x91\xc3\x83\xc3\xaf]',re.UNICODE)
>>> print rePat.sub("", string)
Ã
When reading from a file, string = open('filename.txt').read() reads a byte sequence.
To get the unicode content, do: string = unicode(open('filename.txt').read(), 'encoding'). Or: string = open('filename.txt').read().decode('encoding').
The codecs module can decode unicode streams (such as files) on-the-fly.
Do a google search for python unicode. Python unicode handling can be a bit hard to grasp at first, it pays to read up on it.
I live by this rule: "Software should only work with Unicode strings internally, converting to a particular encoding on output." (from http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode)
I also recommend: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html