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converting large int list to byte string python

I need to convert int list into a byte string but I don’t know how. I can’t use bytes() because the values are too large.

bytes([152710136, 76354857, 38177353, 2252736081, 1126368238])

I get this error:

ValueError: bytes must be in range(0, 256)

The expected value is:

b'xc4xb7x86x17xcd'

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Answer

You can use .to_bytes to return an array of bytes representing an integer. Note: This works only in python 3.1 and above.

For example:

>>> (1024).to_bytes(2, byteorder='big')
b'x04x00'
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