binary literal

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

superpollo wrote:
> i can insert a hex value for a character literal in a string:
> 
>  >>> stuff = "\x45"
>  >>> print stuff
> E
>  >>>
> 
> can i do something like the above, but using a *binary* number? (e.g.
> 00101101 instead of 45) ?

There are binary number literals since 2.6 and there is the chr() function.

 >>> print chr(0b1000101)
E

Uli

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