Convert a string to hex

str2hex.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import binascii


def getHex(string):
    x = binascii.hexlify(string.encode())
    y = str(x,'ascii')

    print("hex   ", y)

    x_unhexed = binascii.unhexlify(x)

    x_ascii = str(x_unhexed,'ascii')
    print("string", x_ascii)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import argparse
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Convert a string to hex")
    parser.add_argument("string", type=str, nargs=1, help="String to convert")
    args = parser.parse_args()