Pujo Aji wrote: > If your symbol are specific it is better to use dictionary. > then if the user give an input you can take character by character and > translate into your binary. > This is the code textTobinary: > mydic = {'A' : "01000001", 'B' : "01000010", 'C' : "01000011"} > strinput = 'ABBC' > result = [mydic[x] for x in strinput_process] > print result >
You might also want to look at "Number to String in Arbirtrary Base" recipe: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/365468 It uses a more innovative approach. -- Poor Yorick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor