String Question

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mac_string = '001485e55503'  (This is the mac address of a computer.)

I am using wake on LAN python script to start computer remote.It uses
format like this ....

s.sendto('\xff'*6 + '\x00\x014\x85\xe5\x55\x03'*16, ('192.168.1.255',
80))

where '\x00\x14\x85\xe5\x55\x03' is the MAC address to be used.


What I do is break the string into 6 parts like this,

str01=mac_string[0:2]
str02=mac_string[2:4]
str03=mac_string[4:6]
str04=mac_string[6:8]
str05=mac_string[8:10]
str06=mac_string[10:12]

and if I use it like this

s.sendto('\xff'*6 + '\xstr01\xstr02\xstr03\xstr04\xstr05\xstr06'*16,
('192.168.1.255', 80))
I get an error


I also tried like this
s.sendto('\xff'*6 + 'mac_string'*16, ('192.168.1.255', 80))

Thiis also didnt work.


Since the MAC adddress are hexadecimal, how should I go about it here.

Please help, every help is appreciated. Thanks