How to Convert a string into binary

[HNT20]

Rune Strand wrote:
> HNT20 wrote:
>> Hello All
>>
> 
> def ascii_to_bin(char):
>     ascii = ord(char)
>     bin = []
> 
>     while (ascii > 0):
>         if (ascii & 1) == 1:
>             bin.append("1")
>         else:
>             bin.append("0")
>         ascii = ascii >> 1
> 
>     bin.reverse()
>     binary = "".join(bin)
>     zerofix = (8 - len(binary)) * '0'
> 
>     return zerofix + binary
> 
> 
> 
> some_string = 'Time to go now, Rummy?'
> 
> binary = []
> for char in some_string:
>     binary.append(ascii_to_bin(char))
> 
> print binary
> print " ".join(binary)
> 
> 
> 
> some_string = 'Time to go now, Rummy?'
> 
> binary = []
> for char in some_string:
>     binary.append(ascii_to_bin(char))
> 
> print binary
> print " ".join(binary)
> 
> """
>  ['01010100', '01101001', '01101101', '01100101', '00100000',
> '01110100', '01101111', '00100000', '01100111', '01101111', '00100000',
> '01101110', '01101111', '01110111', '00101100', '00100000', '01010010',
> '01110101', '01101101', '01101101', '01111001', '00111111']
> 01010100 01101001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000
> 01100111 01101111 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110111 00101100 00100000
> 01010010 01110101 01101101 01101101 01111001 00111111
> """
> 
Thanks very much. this code looks really promising. i will try to 
implement this code and see if i get any luck

HNT