I'm using the standard Python3 lib binascii, and specifically the crc_hqx() function
binascii.crc_hqx(data, value)
Compute a 16-bit CRC value of data, starting with value as the initial CRC, and return the result. This uses the CRC-CCITT polynomial x16 + x12 + x5 + 1, often represented as 0x1021. This CRC is used in the binhex4 format.
I'm able to convert to CRC with this code:
import binascii
t = 'abcd'
z = binascii.crc_hqx(t.encode('ascii'), 0)
print(t,z)
which, as expected, prints the line
abcd 43062
But how do I convert back to ASCII?
I've tried variations with the a2b_hqx() function
binascii.a2b_hqx(string)
Convert binhex4 formatted ASCII data to binary, without doing RLE-decompression. The string should contain a complete number of binary bytes, or (in case of the last portion of the binhex4 data) have the remaining bits zero.
The simplest version would be:
y = binascii.a2b_hqx(str(z))
But I've also tried variations with bytearray() and str.encode(), etc.
For this code:
import binascii
t = 'abcd'
z = binascii.crc_hqx(t.encode('ascii'), 0)
print(t,z)
y = binascii.a2b_hqx(str(z))
the Traceback:
abcd 43062
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 5, in <module>
y = binascii.a2b_hqx(str(z))
binascii.Incomplete: String has incomplete number of bytes
And with this code:
y = binascii.a2b_hqx(bytearray(z))
This Traceback:
binascii.Error: Illegal char
