hex string to character in python

Question

I have a hex string like:

data = \"437c2123\"

I want to convert this string to a sequence of characters according to the ASCII table. The

Answer 1

In Python2

>>> "437c2123".decode('hex')
'C|!#'

In Python3 (also works in Python2, for <2.6 you can't have the b prefixing the string)

>>> import binascii
>>> binascii.unhexlify(b"437c2123")
b'C|!#'