ValueError: non-hexadecimal number found in fromhex() arg at position

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I have a hexadecimal string 

hexDecoded = '0xa506f7374696e6720446174653a204a756c792031322c2032303038205b45426f6f6b20233238395d0a52656c6561736520446174653a204a756c792c20313939350a5b4c61737420757064617465643a204a616e756172792031332c20323031325d0a0a0a4c616e67756167653a20456e676c6973680a0a0a2a2a2a205354'

On trying to obtain text as 

text = bytearray.fromhex(hexDecoded.lstrip('0x')).decode()

I get the error

ValueError: non-hexadecimal number found in fromhex() arg at position 255

I can't understand why the code is looking at postion 255 in the hexadecimal string when the length of stripped hexadecimal string is only 255.

Any ideas what is missing here.

Thanks for help

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1 Answers

It's because that string contains an odd number of digits, leaving the trailing 4 as a singleton.

bytearray.fromhex('4') produces the same error.

If you change it to 04, it works.

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