Integer to Binary string

[Ian Bicking]

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 10:39, srijit at yahoo.com wrote:
> I would like to know the most efficient Pythonic way to convert an
> integer to a binary string. Any suggestions?
> Is there any Python function similar to _itoa?

You might look at the marshal or pickle modules -- they both do
something of this type (as long as you aren't concerned about the
particular format of the string, just that it's compact and reversible).

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