Hexadecimal encoder & decoder in Python

Best thing , I love about Python is, It has lots of inbuilt Pre-defined functions . which shorten our code by a large extend .

Hexadecimal encoding & decoding is very easy & need only few lines of  in python . 

Here Is Python2.7 code for Hex conversion from string ,and from Hex to string 

1. ##http://beginer2cs.blogspot.com
3. ### Hexadecimal Encoder & decoder
4. #NOTE It Convert It treat Number as string
6. def Hex_encode(a):
7.     '''
8.     take string or integer as input
9.     &
10.     return hexadecimal encoded of it
11.    '''
12.     b=a.encode("hex")
13.     return b
15. def Hex_decode(a):
16.     '''
17.    Take Hexadecimal encode
18.    &
19.    return actual value
20.    '''
21.     b=a.decode("hex")
22.     return b
23.    
25. a = raw_input('Enter data to Encode in Hexadecimal : ') #take input
26. print "\nHex_Encoded data is :",Hex_encode(a),"\n"
27. c = raw_input('Enter Encoded data to decode : ') #take input
28. print "\nHex_decoded data is : ",Hex_decode(c)

Output for this simple code is :

I generally used a basic shift cipher  then hex encryption to to make some special comment at Facebook .such that only I and some of my  friend can understand it ..