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 # Formatting and shortening byte slices as hexadecimal strings
 
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 This crate provides wrappers for byte slices and lists of byte slices that implement the
 standard formatting traits and print the bytes as a hexadecimal string. It respects the
 alignment, width and precision parameters and applies padding and shortening.