Python equivalent of php pack

Question

I have this statement below in php to convert hex string to binary.

$m=pack(\"H*\" , \"A88BE9L98990........\");

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Answer 1

The binascii module has binascii.unhexlify(hexstr), which does what you want.

>>> import binascii
>>> binascii.unhexlify("A88BE9L98990")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
TypeError: Non-hexadecimal digit found
# Not sure why there's an L in there... take it out...
>>> binascii.unhexlify("A88BE9989900")
'\xa8\x8b\xe9\x98\x99\x00'