On May 7, 4:03 pm, Joel Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Python 3.0 has such a formatting operation, but Python 2.x does not. > > However it's not hard to write. > > Indeed. Refraining from using named lambdas: > > >>> def bin(x): > ... return ''.join(x & (1 << i) and '1' or '0' for i in > ... range(7,-1,-1)) > ... > >>> bin(12) > '00001100' > >>> bin(63) > '00111111' > > It would be nice to have str(x, 2) like int(x, 2), but there are bigger > fish in pond.
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