Convert to binary and convert back to strings

[Grant Edwards]

On 2007-02-21, Harlin Seritt <harlinseritt at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I would like to take a string like
> 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocius' and write it to a file in
> binary forms -- this way a user cannot read the string in case
> they were try to open in something like ascii text editor.

Why wouldn't they be able to read it?  ASCII _is_ binary.

> I'd also like to be able to read the binary formed data back
> into string format so that it shows the original value. Is
> there any way to do this in Python?

What you're describing as "this" doesn't seem to make any
sense.

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