[Tutor] Conversion question

[Wayne]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:46 PM, <xchimeras at gmail.com> wrote:

> Quick question.  Say I have a string a="Man" and I want to print the string
> in base2.  Is there a python function like there is in perl to do this?
> Thanks in advance for any input


do you mean like this:

 In [23]: int('Man', 2)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/wayne/<ipython console> in <module>()

ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 2: 'Man'

Or do you mean this?
In [24]: mystr = 'some string'

In [25]: mystr.encode('hex')
Out[25]: '736f6d6520737472696e67'

HTH,
Wayne



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