A few questiosn about encoding

[Νικόλαος Κούρας]

On 13/6/2013 11:20 πμ, Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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
typing 16474 in interactive session both in python 2 and 3 gives back 
the number 16474

while we want the the binary representation of the number 16474