On Jan 14, 7:44 am, ts <thaisi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 14, 3:32 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:21 PM, ts <thaisi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > hi, is there a way to read a character/string into bits in python? > > > > i understand that character is read in bytes. Do i have to write a > > > function to convert it myself into 1010101 or there is a library in > > > python that enable me to do that? > > > It's not quite clear to me what you mean, but here are 2 guesses: > > - If you want to convert an ASCII character to its ASCII integer > > value, use ord() > > - If you want to convert an integer into a string of its base-2 > > representation, use bin() [requires Python 2.6, I think] > > > Cheers, > > Chris > > > -- > > Follow the path of the Iguana...http://rebertia.com > > hi, bin() is what i'm looking for. But only python 2.4 is available to > me. Is there a replacement of bin() in python 2.4?
There's a recipe for this at ActiveState: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/219300/#c6 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
