Hexadecimal list conversion

[Peter Otten]

Mark T wrote:

> "Gabriel Genellina" <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote in message 

>> If you got that from a file, I bet you read it using the wrong
>> encoding. Try opening the file using codecs.open("filename", "rb",
>> encoding="utf-16-be") instead of plain open. 

> There is an odd number of bytes in each string.  Each begins and ends
> with \x00, so it doesn't look like utf-16-be.  

I think Gabriel is right. The OP probably butchered the original structure
with

open(filename).read().split("\n")

Peter