John Pote <johnhp...@o2.co.uk> writes: > I recently had the problem of converting from an integer to its > representation as a list of binary bits, each bit being an integer 1 > or 0, and vice versa.
Is this a homework assignment? > E.G. > 0x53 > becomes > [ 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1 ] >>> foo = 4567 >>> foo 4567 >>> "{foo:d}".format(foo=foo) '4567' >>> "{foo:b}".format(foo=foo) '1000111010111' >>> foo_binary_text = "{foo:b}".format(foo=foo) >>> foo_binary_digits = list(foo_binary_text) >>> foo_binary_digits ['1', '0', '0', '0', '1', '1', '1', '0', '1', '0', '1', '1', '1'] > Just wondered if there was a neat way of doing this without resorting > to a bit bashing loop. Python's string formatting and sequence types are quite powerful. -- \ “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are | `\ not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer | _o__) to reality.” —Albert Einstein, 1983 | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list