Johannes Graumann <johannes_graum...@web.de> writes: > '00:08:9b:ce:f5:d4' > ... > hexcall = "\\x".join(hexcall).decode('string_escape')
I think it's best not to mess with stuff like that. Convert to integers then convert back: mac = '00:08:9b:ce:f5:d4' hexcall = ''.join(chr(int(c,16)) for c in mac.split(':')) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list