binary string question

[Ben Finney]

On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 23:20:05 GMT, Alex Martelli wrote:
> Dan Jones wrote:
>> I'm trying to figure out how to get bit operators to work on a binary
>> string.
>
> You can access an individual byte simply by indexing the string

It's possible the original poster is asking (ambiguously) about treating
a string consisting of '0' and '1' digits, as a binary number.

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