how to read non-zero part of intelhex file in python using IntelHex package

Question

I'm trying to read part hex data from an intelhex file using Intelhex package of python 3.6. Using following code I opened the file and tried to convert to dictionary if it helps.

ih = IntelHex("data.hex")
mydict = ih.todict() 

now I have an address

startAddress = some value

I want to read stored data starting from $startAddress delimited to the zero value. What's the best way to perform that?

Answer 1

The following code is the solution. First I converted the IntenHex file to the dictionary:

from intelhex import IntelHex
ih = IntelHex("sampleFile.hex")
ihdict = ih.todict()

Then iterated through the dictionary from startAddress to the place that value is None. I stored values in a string named datastr.

datastr = ""
startAddress = 500300
while ihdict.get(startAddress) != None:
    datastr += str("%0.2X" %ihdict.get(startAddress))
    startAddress += 1