Can string formatting be used to convert an integer to its binary form ?

[Gabriel Genellina]

At Thursday 28/9/2006 05:22, Mirco Wahab wrote:

> > String formatting can be used to converting an integer to its octal or
> > hexadecimal form:
> >  >>> a = 199
> >  >>> "%o" % a
> > '307'
> >  >>> "%x" % a
> > 'c7'
> >
> > But, can string formatting be used to convert an integer to its binary
> > form ?
>
>   a = 199
>   a_bin_str = pack('L', a)

Notice that the OP was looking for another thing, given the examples. 
Perhaps a better wording would have been "how to convert an integer 
to its base-2 string representation".


Gabriel Genellina
Softlab SRL 


	
	
		
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