binascii.unhexlify ... not clear about usage, and output

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:46:23 -0700, mensanator at aol.com wrote:

> You can with gmpy:
> 
>>>> import gmpy
>>>> x = 0x0164
>>>> s = gmpy.digits(x,2)      # convert to base 2
>>>> y = '0'*(16-len(s)) + s   # pad to 16 bits
>>>> y
> '0000000101100100'

For the padding I'd use the `zfill()` method.

In [15]: a = 0x0164

In [16]: gmpy.digits(a, 2).zfill(16)
Out[16]: '0000000101100100'

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch