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Message: [QUOTE="Johannes Graumann, post: 5053984"] Dear all, I'm trying to convert '00:08:9b:ce:f5:d4' to '\x00\x08\x9b\xce\xf5\xd4' for use in magic packet construction for WakeOnLan like so: wolsocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) wolsocket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BROADCAST, 1) wolsocket.sendto('\xff'*6 + '\x00\x08\x9b\xce\xf5\xd4'*16, (expectedlanbroadcast, 80)) This is what I came up whith, but I remain puzzled on how to preserver the leading '\h' ... thanks for any hint expectedservermac = '00:08:9b:ce:f5:d4' hexcall = str.split(expectedservermac,":") hexcall.insert(0,'') hexcall = "\\x".join(hexcall).decode('string_escape') Thanks for any pointers. Sincerely, Joh [/QUOTE]