I'd use the int and chr casts. e.g., new_string = "" a = '012' new_string += chr(int(a))
Just in case the 012 is an octal code I'll mention that to cast to int
in general you can pass the base, as in int('034',8) or int('AF',16)
Cheers,
Keir.
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