Converting hex to char help

[Sybren Stuvel]

Ognjen Bezanov enlightened us with:
> Hi all, I am trying to convert a hexdecimal value to a char using this code:
>
> print ' %c ' % int(0x62)
This is an integer   ^^^^


> this works fine, but if I want to do this:
>
> number = "62"
> print ' %c ' % int("0x" + number)
This is a string     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> How can I convert a string "0x62" to int/hex without this problem?

In [0]: exec('num=0x%s' % '62')

In [1]: num
Out[1]: 98


Sybren
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