Neil Cerutti wrote:
> On 2006-09-29, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> MonkeeSage wrote:
>>> So far as unobfuscated versions go, how about the simple:
>>>
>>> def to_bin(x):
>>> out = []
>>> while x > 0:
>>> out.insert(0, str(x % 2))
>>> x = x / 2
>>> return ''.join(out)
>>>
>>> Regards,
>
> It was surprising that
>
>>>> i = int("111010101", 2)
>
> is a one-way operation.
>
>>>> s = str(i, 2)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> TypeError: str() takes at most 1 argument (2 given)
str() is not only for converting integers, but all other types too.
An explicit argument for this special case is not Pythonic IMO.
Georg
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