Integer to Binary string

[Erik Max Francis]

srijit at yahoo.com wrote:

> I would like to know the most efficient Pythonic way to convert an
> integer to a binary string. Any suggestions?
> Is there any Python function similar to _itoa?

It looks like most of the other respondants misunderstood your question
(the mention of _itoa was the key).  Just use the str builtin:

>>> i = 10
>>> i
10
>>> str(i)
'10'


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