How to create python bytes object from long hex string

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I have a long sequence of hex digits in a string  such as      000000000000484240FA063DE5D0B744ADBED63A81FAEA390000C8428640A43D5005BD44   only much longer  several kilobytes   Is there a builtin way to convert this to a bytes object in python 2 6 3

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Try the binascii module  from binascii import unhexlify b   unhexlify myhexstr

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import binascii  binascii a2b hex hex string    Thats the way I did it

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Try the binascii module  from binascii import unhexlify b   unhexlify myhexstr

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Try the binascii module  from binascii import unhexlify b   unhexlify myhexstr

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result   bytes fromhex some hex string

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result   bytes fromhex some hex string

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Works in Python 2 7 and higher including python3   result   bytearray fromhex  deadbeef     Note  There seems to be a bug with the bytearray fromhex   function in Python 2 6  The python org documentation states that the function accepts a string as an argument  but when applied  the following error is thrown     gt  gt  gt  bytearray fromhex  B9 01EF   Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt stdin gt    line 1  in  lt module gt  TypeError  fromhex   argument 1 must be unicode  not str

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You can do this with the hex codec   ie    gt  gt  gt  s  000000000000484240FA063DE5D0B744ADBED63A81FAEA390000C8428640A43D5005BD44   gt  gt  gt  s decode  hex     x00 x00 x00 x00 x00 x00HB  xfa x06  xe5 xd0 xb7D xad xbe xd6  x81 xfa xea9 x00 x00 xc8B x86  xa4 P x05 xbdD

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result   bytes fromhex some hex string

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You can do this with the hex codec   ie    gt  gt  gt  s  000000000000484240FA063DE5D0B744ADBED63A81FAEA390000C8428640A43D5005BD44   gt  gt  gt  s decode  hex     x00 x00 x00 x00 x00 x00HB  xfa x06  xe5 xd0 xb7D xad xbe xd6  x81 xfa xea9 x00 x00 xc8B x86  xa4 P x05 xbdD

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import binascii  binascii a2b hex hex string    Thats the way I did it

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Try the binascii module  from binascii import unhexlify b   unhexlify myhexstr

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You can do this with the hex codec   ie    gt  gt  gt  s  000000000000484240FA063DE5D0B744ADBED63A81FAEA390000C8428640A43D5005BD44   gt  gt  gt  s decode  hex     x00 x00 x00 x00 x00 x00HB  xfa x06  xe5 xd0 xb7D xad xbe xd6  x81 xfa xea9 x00 x00 xc8B x86  xa4 P x05 xbdD

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result   bytes fromhex some hex string

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You can do this with the hex codec   ie    gt  gt  gt  s  000000000000484240FA063DE5D0B744ADBED63A81FAEA390000C8428640A43D5005BD44   gt  gt  gt  s decode  hex     x00 x00 x00 x00 x00 x00HB  xfa x06  xe5 xd0 xb7D xad xbe xd6  x81 xfa xea9 x00 x00 xc8B x86  xa4 P x05 xbdD

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Works in Python 2 7 and higher including python3   result   bytearray fromhex  deadbeef     Note  There seems to be a bug with the bytearray fromhex   function in Python 2 6  The python org documentation states that the function accepts a string as an argument  but when applied  the following error is thrown     gt  gt  gt  bytearray fromhex  B9 01EF   Traceback  most recent call last     File   lt stdin gt    line 1  in  lt module gt  TypeError  fromhex   argument 1 must be unicode  not str

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