Hex input

[glipner]

I'm working on a feature of possible hex input, currently working for iPython console.
Is this something you'd consider adding to the module?

In [23]: %hexinput on
In [24]: %hexon

In [25]: x = (12fce, 10)
In [26]: x
Out[26]: (0x12fce, 0x10)

[lipner]

Sorry, opened the issue from the wrong user.
Still the question remains.
Thanks

[rhelmot]

I'm curious to see how you would pull this off, and would definitely offer your code a place in this module as sort of a pedestal in honor of whatever on earth you're doing to the poor python interpreter, but I would definitely want this feature to be off by default.

[lipner]

Actually turned out less intimidating than how I had feared.
All because IDA uses addresses without the 0x prefix, and I'm used to copying from there...
And of course, off by default is essential.

Please see WIP here:
https://github.com/lipner/monkeyhex/blob/hex_input/hexinput.py

Also, hex literals must begin with a number, otherwise they might be valid names, so I'm choosing not override those.

[rhelmot]

I think this would be a good addition if there were a configuration option to aggressively convert tokens which could be valid names into hex literals. I'll take it :)