[Python-3000] New built-in function: bin()

[Nick Coghlan]

Ian Bicking wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> This has been brought up many times before. The value of bin() is
>> really rather minimal except when you're just learning about binary
>> numbers; and then writing it yourself is a useful exercise.
>>
>> I'm not saying that bin() is useless -- but IMO its (small) value
>> doesn't warrant making, maintaining and documenting a new built-in
>> function.
> 
> And for some reason no one wants to propose it for any particular stdlib 
> module...

binascii.a2b_bin and binascii.b2a_bin might actually make sense. . .

Cheers,
Nick.

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