title: How can I send anything other than strings through Python sock.send()
body: <p>I'm very very new to programming in Python, but out of necessity I had to hack something together very quick.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to send some data over UDP, and I have everything working except for the fact that when I do socket.send(), I have to enter the data in string form. Here is my program so you can see what I am doing:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import socket
  
  
  IPADDR = '8.4.2.1'
  PORTNUM = 10000
  
  s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM, 0)
  
  s.connect((IPADDR, PORTNUM))
  
  s.send('test string'.encode('hex'))
  
  s.close()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How could I get it so that I can do something in hexadecimal like s.send(ff:23:25:a1) for example, so that when I look at the data portion of the packet in Wireshark, I see ff:23:25:a1</p>