A few questiosn about encoding

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Νικόλαος Κούρας <support at superhost.gr> wrote:
> On 13/6/2013 10:58 πμ, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:42 PM, �������� ������ <support at superhost.gr>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 13/6/2013 10:11 ��, 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.
>
>
> Indeed python embraced it in single quoting '0b100000001011010' and not as
> 0b100000001011010 which in fact makes it a string.
>
> But since bin(16474) seems to create a string rather than an expected
> number(at leat into my mind) then how do we get the binary representation of
> the number 16474 as a number?

In Python 2:
>>> 16474

In Python 3, you have to fiddle around with ctypes, but broadly
speaking, the same thing.

ChrisA