Python equivalent of php pack

Question

I have this statement below in php to convert hex string to binary.

$m=pack("H*" , "A88BE9L98990........");

I need to do the same in another python program ?

Any Ideas ?

Cheers,

What's the `L` doing there? – Tim Pietzcker Dec 15 '12 at 13:47 — Tim Pietzcker, Dec 15 '12 at 13:47

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 15 '12 at 13:47

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The binascii module has binascii.unhexlify(hexstr), which does what you want.

>>> import binascii
>>> binascii.unhexlify("A88BE9L98990")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: Non-hexadecimal digit found
# Not sure why there's an L in there... take it out...
>>> binascii.unhexlify("A88BE9989900")
'\xa8\x8b\xe9\x98\x99\x00'

answered Dec 15 '12 at 13:47

Ned Batchelder

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Thank you so much ! Original string was too large to post. So i just typed in random. – Aditya Singh Dec 15 '12 at 14:52

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 15 '12 at 13:49

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python2php web site can help you - it suggest using struct.pack

answered Dec 15 '12 at 13:49

Maxim Krizhanovsky

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struct.pack does most of what PHP's pack does, but it doesn't handle the hex conversion. – Ned Batchelder Dec 15 '12 at 13:56

Python equivalent of php pack

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