creating a hex value

[David Bear]

I have a file that I need to parse. Items in it are delimited by a hex 15
(0x015). I know it must be trivial to assign a hex value to a variable but
I'm not seeing it in my python essential ref. how can I do

delim = 0x15
while:
        ln = file.read()
        if ln[0] == delim:
                do something

I've looked at the hex function but it doesn't sound like what I want.

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David Bear
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