"More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3"

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 2014-01-06 22:20, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
>> >>>> data = b"\x43\x6c\x67\x75\x62\x61" # is there an easier way to
>> >>>> turn a hex dump into a bytes literal?
>>
>>  >>> bytes.fromhex('43 6c 67 75 62 61')
>> b'Clguba'
>
> Very nice new functionality in Py3k, but 2.x doesn't seem to have such
> a method. :-(

Thanks, Serhiy. Very nice new functionality indeed, and not having it
in 2.x isn't a problem to me. That's exactly what I was looking for -
it doesn't insist on (or complain about) separators between bytes.
(Though the error from putting a space _inside_ a byte is a little
confusing. But that's trivial.)

ChrisA