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Produce a "standard" hexdump of the specified string or file-like object. The output consists of a series of lines like this:

000000: 72 22 22 22 4f  53 20 72 6f 75  r'''OS rou
00000a: 74 69 6e 65 73  20 66 6f 72 20  tines for
000014: 4d 61 63 2c 20  4e 54 2c 20 6f  Mac, NT, o
00001e: 72 20 50 6f 73  69 78 20 64 65  r Posix de
000028: 70 65 6e 64 69  6e 67 20 6f 6e  pending on
000032: 20 77 68 61 74  20 73 79 73 74   what syst
00003c: 65 6d 20 77 65  27 72 65 20 6f  em we're o
000046: 6e 2e 0a 0a 54  68 69 73 20 65  n...This e

The output width (i.e., the number of decoded characters shown on a line) can be controlled with the width parameter.

Adjacent repeated lines are collapsed by default. For example:

000000: 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00  ..........
*** Repeated 203 times
0007f8: 72 22 22 22 4f  53 20 72 6f 75  r'''OS rou

This behavior can be disabled via the show_repeats parameter.

Parameters:

• source (str or file) - The object whose contents are to be dumped in hex. The object can be a string or a file-like object.
• out (file) - Where to dump the hex output
• width (int) - The number of dumped characters per line
• start (int) - Offset within input where reading should begin
• limit (int) - Total number of bytes to dump. Defaults to everything from start to the end.
• show_repeats (bool) - False to collapse repeated output lines, True to dump all lines, even if they're repeats.