converting decimal to binary

[Paul Rubin]

"Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> writes:
> That is, "the other direction" is built in.  Greg Wilson was keen to
> generalize this in both directions but I don't think it ever got written up
> in a PEP.  Maybe a patch is sitting on SourceForge.  

I entered a change request for it once and I think Guido suggested
that I submit a patch for the binascii module, which I never got
around to doing.