Carsten Gaebler wrote: > >>> import binascii > >>> binascii.unhexlify("01234567") > '\x01#Eg' <clueless> OK, this one has been puzzling me for a while... why are the functions in binascii called 'hexlify' and 'unhexlify'? Why not 'hexify'? Where does the L come from? </clueless> --Hans