pack hex string using struct module

Question

I need to use struct module to pack hex string of '4EA7' to 2bytes, here is what I did:

struct.pack('<H',int('4EA7',16))
'\xa7N'

question is why it's not returning \x4E\xA7?

Thanks

Answer 1

The thing you're looking for would be:

In [1]: struct.pack('>H',int('4EA7',16))
Out[1]: b'N\xa7'

\x4E in https://ascii.cl/ is the letter 'N' an A7 is printed as is.