How to convert a number to binary?

[Lyosha]

On May 17, 11:04 pm, Stargaming <stargam... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >>>Is there an *easy* way to convert a number to binary?
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> Wrote this a few moons ago::
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>    dec2bin = lambda x: (dec2bin(x/2) + str(x%2)) if x else ''

This is awesome.  Exactly what I was looking for.  Works for other
bases too.

I guess the reason I couldn't come up with something like this was
being brainwashed that lambda is a no-no.

And python2.5 funky ?: expression comes in handy!

Thanks a lot!