binascii.a2b_binary

[Scott David Daniels]

Ed Swarthout wrote:
> Why is there no binascii.a2b_binary(bitstr) which returns the binary data 
> represented by the bit string?  Like:
> 
>>>> binascii.a2b_binary('0011001100110101')
> '35'
 > perl has pack("B*", "0011001100110101");

What, you mean like:
     int('0011001100110101', 2)
Which you could show as:
     hex(int('0011001100110101', 2))

I guess because Python is not so wonderful as Perl.  Apparently Python
stupidly forgot to follow Perl's great naming conventions.

--Scott David Daniels
scott.daniels at acm.org