[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > mac_string = '001485e55503' (This is the mac address of a computer.) > > I am using wake on LAN python script to start computer remote.It uses > format like this .... > > s.sendto('\xff'*6 + '\x00\x014\x85\xe5\x55\x03'*16, ('192.168.1.255', > 80)) > > where '\x00\x14\x85\xe5\x55\x03' is the MAC address to be used. > > > What I do is break the string into 6 parts like this, > > str01=mac_string[0:2] > str02=mac_string[2:4] > str03=mac_string[4:6] > str04=mac_string[6:8] > str05=mac_string[8:10] > str06=mac_string[10:12] > > and if I use it like this > > s.sendto('\xff'*6 + '\xstr01\xstr02\xstr03\xstr04\xstr05\xstr06'*16, > ('192.168.1.255', 80)) > I get an error > > > I also tried like this > s.sendto('\xff'*6 + 'mac_string'*16, ('192.168.1.255', 80)) > > Thiis also didnt work. > > > Since the MAC adddress are hexadecimal, how should I go about it here. > > Please help, every help is appreciated. Thanks
See http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html You probably want: s.sendto('\xff'*6 + ('\x%s\x%s\x%s\x%s\x%s\x%s' % (str01, str02, str03, sttr04, str05, str06))*16, ('192.168.1.255', 80)) Iain -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list