A few questiosn about encoding

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Νικόλαος Κούρας <support at superhost.gr> wrote:
> On 13/6/2013 10:11 πμ, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> No! That creates a string from 16474 in base two:
>> '0b100000001011010'
>
> I disagree here.
> 16474 is a number in base 10. Doing bin(16474) we get the binary
> representation of number 16474 and not a string.
> Why you say we receive a string while python presents a binary number?

You can disagree all you like. Steven cited a simple point of fact,
one which can be verified in any Python interpreter. Nikos, you are
flat wrong here; bin(16474) creates a string.

ChrisA