"Mihai Iacob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> Is there a function that converts from integer to
> binary (or a module that handles this)?
Remember that integers are binary. Thats how they are stored.
What I think you want is something that will represent an
integer as a string of 1s and 0s. Something like the hex
function which returns the hex string version of a number?
Sadly, and I don't understand why, it doesn't exist in the
standard library. But its easy to build your own. Here is
one, Dick has provided another more general form:
def bin(n):
digits = ['000','001','010','011','100','101','110','111']
num = oct(int(n))
result = ""
for d in num:
result += digits[int(d)]
return result.lstrip('0')
NB There's a bug in handling negative numbers!
HTH,
Alan G.
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