How to XOR a byte output?

[durgadevi1]

On Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 9:18:37 PM UTC+8, durgadevi1 wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I have a doubt regarding a problem.
> 
> First, I am required to read a given file.
> 
> 
> The output from the file is given below:
> 
> b'$//W?\xc0\x829\xa2\xb9\x13\x8c\xd5{\'
> 
> 
> I used the type() to identify the class and its a byte class.
> 
> I saw many \x and thought it might be hex.
> 
> 
> So, I used binascii.hexlify() and got the following output:
> b'242f2f573fc08239a2b9138cd57b'
> 
> Now, this output is being encrypted and I need to perform an XOR operation on it in order to retrieve a secret message.
> 
> But, I'm not sure how to code the XOR operation. How do I code that?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> PS: I'm not sure if I have done any mistake along the way. That's why I have mentioned all the steps that I've done. Let me know if I have done any step wrongly. :)

Ok thanks guys :)