No you can't convert using str(). Binary data is stored in a Python string object, but it isn't really a string. It is rather just a bunch of bits packed into a string variable. struct.unpack() will unpack those bits into any number of different types of variables and is what you need.
Example: import struct s='\x64' values=struct.unpack('b',s) print "values=",values value=(100,) Note: struct.unpack returns a tuple of values. Just get values[0] to get the first one. Larry Madhusudan Singh wrote: > Larry Bates wrote: > > >>Can you give us an example. I don't know what two bit >>hex means (takes at least 4 bits to make a hex digit). > > > Like 64(base 16)=100. > I am referring to 64 in the above. > > >>Now I'm going to try to guess: >> >>If the data is binary then all you need to do is to >>use the struct.unpack module to convert to integer. > > > Doesn't unpack presume that the input is a string ? If so, is it safe to > convert binary data to string using str() ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list