Re: [Tutor] convert ascii to binary

2012-09-12 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 12/09/12 21:20, Aaron Pilgrim wrote: Hello, I am trying to write a small program that converts ascii to binary. Can you explain what you mean by "ascii to binary"? Any of these could be described that way: 'hello world' => '68656c6c6f20776f726c64' => 'begin 666 \n+:&5L;&\\@=V]R;&0 \n \nen

Re: [Tutor] convert ascii to binary

2012-09-12 Thread eryksun
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Aaron Pilgrim wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to write a small program that converts ascii to binary. > > I tried using the python reference library section 18.8 but had > trouble understanding how to make it work. > > Here is the code I am currently trying to use:

Re: [Tutor] convert ascii to binary

2012-09-12 Thread Dave Angel
On 09/12/2012 07:20 AM, Aaron Pilgrim wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to write a small program that converts ascii to binary. > > I tried using the python reference library section 18.8 but had > trouble understanding how to make it work. If you supplied a link, we might be able to figure out what s

Re: [Tutor] convert ascii to binary

2012-09-12 Thread Dave Angel
On 09/12/2012 07:54 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > > A couple of thoughts. The section you reference suggests using higher > level modules such as uu. > uu seems to want to read an ascii file and write a uu encoded file. > > I just read the wikipedia article on uuencoding, since I have heard of > i

Re: [Tutor] convert ascii to binary

2012-09-12 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Aaron Pilgrim wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to write a small program that converts ascii to binary. > > I tried using the python reference library section 18.8 but had > trouble understanding how to make it work. > > Here is the code I am currently trying to use:

[Tutor] convert ascii to binary

2012-09-12 Thread Aaron Pilgrim
Hello, I am trying to write a small program that converts ascii to binary. I tried using the python reference library section 18.8 but had trouble understanding how to make it work. Here is the code I am currently trying to use: def main(): import binascii myWord = input("E