Python - string to hexbytes conversion - HELP!

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Wed Dec 5 18:10:03 EST 2001


On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:48:39PM +0000, me wrote:
> I'm a newbie to Python and I am trying to convert a string of decimal
> numbers - read from raw_input to a series of hexbytes
> eg
> if I do a read and get a='1234567'
> I need  an equivalent string to be
> b=Chr(0x01)+chr(0x23)+chr(x045)+chr(0x67)
> 
> all this is to control a device from the serial port but I cannot seem
> to recall how to conver the input to my required output An hints or
> suggestion most appreciated! I've spend hours trying various built
> in's which I would prefer to use
> 
> HELP!

hex(int('1234567'))

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William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>.
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