Bug#1013243: RFP: hexbytes -- Python bytes subclass that decodes hex, with a readable console output

[Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : hexbytes
  Upstream Author : The Ethereum Foundation
* URL             : https://github.com/ethereum/hexbytes
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: Python
  Description     : Python bytes subclass that decodes hex, with a readable console output

This Python library is needed to update crossbar to a later upstream version.
It should be maintained in the Python Team.

HexBytes is a very thin wrapper around the python built-in bytes class. It has these three changes:

1. Accepts more initializing values, like hex strings, non-negative integers, and booleans
2. Returns hex with prefix ‘0x’ from HexBytes.hex()
3. The representation at console is in hex