No differentiation HEX-String and String about easysnmp HOT 3 OPEN

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

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

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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.

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