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Paul Rubin wrote:

> Johannes Graumann <johannes_graum...@web.de> writes:
>> '00:08:9b:ce:f5:d4'
>> ...
>> hexcall = "\\x".join(hexcall).decode('string_escape')
> 
> I think it's best not to mess with stuff like that.  Convert to integers
> then convert back:
> 
>   mac = '00:08:9b:ce:f5:d4'
>   hexcall = ''.join(chr(int(c,16)) for c in mac.split(':'))

Thanks to you as well!

Joh