title: How to create python bytes object from long hex string?
body: <p>I have a long sequence of hex digits in a string, such as </p>
  
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    <p>000000000000484240FA063DE5D0B744ADBED63A81FAEA390000C8428640A43D5005BD44</p>
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  <p>only much longer, several kilobytes.  Is there a builtin way to convert this to a bytes object in python 2.6/3?</p>