Duncan Booth wrote: > Laurent Pointal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> You may eventually use a more condensed expression and avoid n >> concatenation of n chars using join, like this: >> >> >>> u''.join(unichr(int(x,16)) for x in ['42','72','61','64']) >> u'Brad' > > Or even avoid the loop completely: > >>>> hexs = ['42', '72', '61', '64'] >>>> u'\\x'.join(['']+hexs).decode('string-escape') > 'Brad' > > (but for that to work you really do need to be sure that all the values are > 2 characters).
Or >>> "".join(['42', '72', '61', '74']).decode("hex").decode("latin1") u'Brat' (same caveat) Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list