Convert list of byte strings to bytearray (byte stream)

Question

I have a list of hex strings representing bytes, of the form \"FF\". I want to convert the whole list to a byte stream so I can send it over a socket (Python 3). It looks

Answer 1

hexlist = ["a9", "00", "85", "c6"]
ba = bytearray(h.decode("hex") for h in hexlist)

See also bytearray.fromhex:

bytearray.fromhex(string) -> bytearray

Create a bytearray object from a string of hexadecimal numbers. Spaces between two numbers are accepted. Example: bytearray.fromhex('B9 01EF') -> bytearray(b'\xb9\x01\xef').