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From: Harry George <harry.g.george at boeing.com>
Subject: Re: hex string into binary format?
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"Tertius Cronje" <Tertius.Cronje at postoffice.co.za> writes:

> Hi, 
> 
> How do I get a hexvalued string to a format recognized for binary
> calculation?
> 
> 
> import binascii
> s1 = '1C46BE3D9F6AA820'
> s2 = '8667B5236D89CD46'
> 
> i1 = binascii.unhexlify(s1)
> i2 = binascii.unhexlify(s2)
> x = i1 ^i2
> 
> 	TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for ^: 'str' and 'str'
> 
> Many TIA
> T

i1=int(s1,16)
i2=int(s2,16)

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