UnicodeDecodeError while calling to_binary()

[laurenthuang]

Following code :

from chepy import Chepy
print(Chepy('80').from_hex().to_binary().o)

Causing the following exception:

UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[48], line 2
1 from chepy import Chepy
----> 2 print(Chepy('80').from_hex().to_binary().o)

File d:\codebase\CTF\tools\binary_recon.venv\lib\site-packages\decorator.py:232, in decorate..fun(*args, **kw)
230 if not kwsyntax:
231 args, kw = fix(args, kw, sig)
--> 232 return caller(func, *(extras + args), **kw)

File d:\codebase\CTF\tools\binary_recon.venv\lib\site-packages\chepy\core.py:51, in ChepyDecorators.call_stack(func, *args, **kwargs)
48 func_sig["args"] = func_arguments
49 func_self._stack.append(func_sig)
---> 51 return func(*args, **kwargs)

File d:\codebase\CTF\tools\binary_recon.venv\lib\site-packages\chepy\modules\dataformat.py:935, in DataFormat.to_binary(self, join_by)
920 @ChepyDecorators.call_stack
921 def to_binary(self, join_by: str = " ") -> DataFormatT:
922 """Convert string characters to binary
923
924 Args:
(...)
932 "01100001 01100010 01100011"
933 """
934 self.state = join_by.join(
--> 935 list(format(ord(s), "08b") for s in list(self._convert_to_str()))
936 )
937 return self

File d:\codebase\CTF\tools\binary_recon.venv\lib\site-packages\chepy\core.py:583, in ChepyCore._convert_to_str(self)
573 """This method is used to coerce the curret object in
574 the state variable into bytes. The method should be
575 called inside any method that operates on a bytes object
(...)
580 for the current state type.
581 """
582 if isinstance(self.state, bytes):
--> 583 return self.state.decode()
584 elif isinstance(self.state, str):
585 return self.state

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x80 in position 0: invalid start byte

[securisec]

Fixed and will be released in 6.0.0