Equivalent to chr(eval(self.myhex)) without using eval?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <mailman.1040243490.26231.python-list at python.org>,
Tim Peters <tim at zope.com> wrote:
>[Jeff Kowalczyk]
>> I have a class instance attribute which is a string representation of a
>> hex value. I need to get the chr() character back.
>
>>>> ashex = '2a'
>>>> chr(eval('0x' + ashex))
>'*'
>>>> chr(int(ashex, 16))
>'*'
>>>> import binascii
>>>> binascii.unhexlify(ashex)
>'*'
>>>>
>

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