Example of typical initialization of IntelHex class:
>>> from intelhex import IntelHex
>>> ih = IntelHex("foo.hex")
In the second line we are creating an instance of the class. The constructor optionally takes data to initialize the class. This can be the name of the HEX file, a file-like object, a dictionary, or another instance of IntelHex. If specified, this source is automatically read and decoded. Because of the flexibility of file-like objects in Python, objects like sys.stdin can be used.
If the source is another instance of IntelHex, the new object will become a copy of the source. Finally, a Python dictionary may be specified. This dictionary should have keys equal to memory locations and values equal to the data stored in those locations. See the docstrings for more details.
In version 0.9 the API slightly changed. Now you can create an empty object and load data later.