hexadecimal string to byte array in python

Question

I have a long Hex string that represents a series of values of different types. I wish to convert this Hex String into a byte array so that I can shift each value out and co

Answer 1

def hex2bin(s):
    hex_table = ['0000', '0001', '0010', '0011',
                 '0100', '0101', '0110', '0111',
                 '1000', '1001', '1010', '1011',
                 '1100', '1101', '1110', '1111']
    bits = ''
    for i in range(len(s)):
        bits += hex_table[int(s[i], base=16)]
    return bits