String Question

[Fredrik Lundh]

diffuser78 at gmail.com wrote:

> 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.

    s.sendto('\xff'*6 + binascii.unhexlify(mac_string) *16, ('192.168.1.255', 80))

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