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-rwxr-xr-xtest/functional/test_framework/messages.py6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/test/functional/test_framework/messages.py b/test/functional/test_framework/messages.py
index a0e1a6bc12..504c8c70d4 100755
--- a/test/functional/test_framework/messages.py
+++ b/test/functional/test_framework/messages.py
@@ -190,8 +190,12 @@ def ser_string_vector(l):
return r
-# Deserialize from a hex string representation (eg from RPC)
def from_hex(obj, hex_string):
+ """Deserialize from a hex string representation (e.g. from RPC)
+
+ Note that there is no complementary helper like e.g. `to_hex` for the
+ inverse operation. To serialize a message object to a hex string, simply
+ use obj.serialize().hex()"""
obj.deserialize(BytesIO(hex_str_to_bytes(hex_string)))
return obj