Thanks for the reply I would like to print the string in binary Man=010011010110000101101110 Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: Wayne <sri...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:13:58 To: <xchime...@gmail.com> Cc: <tutor@python.org> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Conversion question On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:46 PM, <xchime...@gmail.com> wrote: > Quick question. Say I have a string a="Man" and I want to print the string > in base2. Is there a python function like there is in perl to do this? > Thanks in advance for any input do you mean like this: In [23]: int('Man', 2) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ValueError Traceback (most recent call last) /home/wayne/<ipython console> in <module>() ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 2: 'Man' Or do you mean this? In [24]: mystr = 'some string' In [25]: mystr.encode('hex') Out[25]: '736f6d6520737472696e67' HTH, Wayne -- To be considered stupid and to be told so is more painful than being called gluttonous, mendacious, violent, lascivious, lazy, cowardly: every weakness, every vice, has found its defenders, its rhetoric, its ennoblement and exaltation, but stupidity hasn’t. - Primo Levi
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