azrael wrote: > Any idea how to easily write a function that recieves a character or > string and returns a binary number like: > ascii("1") is converted to bin("00110001") Other alternatives in 2.6 (I believe) and 3.0: >>> 0b00111010101 469 >>> b='111010101' >>> eval('0b'+b) 469 >>> '{0:b}'.format(469) '111010101'