How to Convert a string into binary

[Fredrik Lundh]

"HNT20" <hnt20 at msn.com> wrote:

> i am new to python language. i am working on a gnuradio project where it
> uses python as the primary programming language. i am trying to convert
> a message, text, or numbers into binary code so that i can process it.

umm.  characters and numbers are stored in binary code, inside your com-
puter.  what exactly makes you think you have to convert them to binary
strings in order to process them ?

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