Weird byte conversion in python

I have a function converting integers to bytes and ran into the following issue.

When using the code below.

>>> data = 9

>>> print(data.to_bytes())

I get this :

>>> b'\t'

When I should be getting this:

b'\x09'

Can anyone say this is happening?

>Solution :

If you want the hex value, you can use an f-string:

data = 9

print(f"b'\\x{data:02x}'")  # b'\x09'

If you want a hex dump, you can try:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

data = 9
bytes = data.to_bytes(2, 'little')

print(' '.join(f"{byte:02x}" for byte in bytes))  # '09 00'