convert a long string in binary

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bussiere maillist wrote:
> i've got a very long string
> and i wanted to convert it in binary
> like
>
> string = """Monty Python, or The Pythons, is the collective name of
> the creators of Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television
> comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on October 5, 1969. A
> total of 45 episodes were made over four series. However, the Python
> phenomenon was much greater, spawning stage tours, a musical, four
> films, numerous albums, and several books, as well as launching the
> members to individual stardom.
>
> The television series, broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974, was
> conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese
> (1969-1973), Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin.
> Loosely structured as a sketch show, but with a highly innovative
> stream-of-consciousness approach (aided by Terry Gilliam's
> animations), it pushed the boundaries of what was then considered
> acceptable, both in terms of style and content.
> """
>
> string = binary(string)
> print string
> // 01010101010101
>
>
> i 'am searching for something like the binary function (taht doesn't
> exist) to convert my string directly in binary.

The gmpy module can convert numbers to binary strings:

import gmpy

s = """
Yes, well, of course that's just the sort of
blinkered philistine pig ignorance I've come
to expect from you non-creative garbage.
"""

ss = ''
for c in s:
    sb = gmpy.digits(ord(c),2) #convert to binary string
    sb = '0'*(8-len(sb)) + sb  #add leading 0's
    ss += sb

print ss



000010100101100101100101011100110010110000100000011101110110010101101100011011000010110000100000011011110110011000100000011000110110111101110101011100100111001101100101001000000111010001101000011000010111010000100111011100110010000001101010011101010111001101110100001000000111010001101000011001010010000001110011011011110111001001110100001000000110111101100110000010100110001001101100011010010110111001101011011001010111001001100101011001000010000001110000011010000110100101101100011010010111001101110100011010010110111001100101001000000111000001101001011001110010000001101001011001110110111001101111011100100110000101101110011000110110010100100000010010010010011101110110011001010010000001100011011011110110110101100101000010100111010001101111001000000110010101111000011100000110010101100011011101000010000001100110011100100110111101101101001000000111100101101111011101010010000001101110011011110110111000101101011000110111001001100101011000010111010001101001011101100110010100100000011001110110000101110010011000100110000101100111011001010010111000001010




> Regards
> Bussiere