No differentiation HEX-String and String

[gzivdo]

With snmpwalk I have this example output:
iso.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.1.1.7.2520.9.1 = Hex-STRING: 31 2F 33 00
iso.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.1.1.7.70039082.5.24 = Hex-STRING: 6C 20 56 54 93 D8
iso.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.1.1.9.70039082.5.24 = STRING: "CISCO ATA SPA122"

With easysnmp I have unicode headache because of stupid compat module, which convert all to unicode even hex string, which is usually mac address.
Please add Hex-STRING snmp_type and return value as encode('hex') from latin1 string (not unicode string).
In this example '31 2F 33 00 ' is a normal string, but I dont see a way for now how to detect it, but what i defenetly need - preserve mac address as hex string (better non unicode).

If I use use_sprint_value=True, I have additionally double quotes, which not needed.

And integer type i want as integer, not unicode string.

[BYT3M3]

I'd like to help fix this issue, because I have a certain OID I cannot set properly without the Hex-String functionality.

[burakCokyildirim]

Hello,
Is there any developments about this problem? or Any solution?

[benafischer94]

For anyone else that comes across this, while I agree the compat could use some help on OCTET STR types. A short work around that appears to be good and concise:

from easysnmp import snmp_get

OID = iso.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.1.1.7.2520.9.1
snmp_get(OID, hostname='192.0.2.1', community='public', version=2).value.encode('latin-1')

You'll end up with a bytes object of the hex.

E.g. follow the original example if snmpget returns:
iso.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.1.1.7.2520.9.1 = Hex-STRING: 31 2F 33 00

Then you would get:

from easysnmp import snmp_get

OID = iso.0.8802.1.1.2.1.4.1.1.7.2520.9.1
snmp_get(OID, hostname='192.0.2.1', community='public', version=2).value.encode('latin-1')

b'\x31\x2f\x33\x00'

I'm sure there was some design reason behind using latin-1 encoding originally. But it does draw a good amount of confusion, especially with beginners. And the fragmentation of SNMP in Python doesn't help much.