On Jul 11, 1:38 pm, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:46:23 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You can with gmpy: > > >>>> import gmpy > >>>> x = 0x0164 > >>>> s = gmpy.digits(x,2) # convert to base 2 > >>>> y = '0'*(16-len(s)) + s # pad to 16 bits > >>>> y > > '0000000101100100' > > For the padding I'd use the `zfill()` method. > > In [15]: a = 0x0164 > > In [16]: gmpy.digits(a, 2).zfill(16) > Out[16]: '0000000101100100' > > Ciao, > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
Damn, I didn't know you could do that. If only there was a built-in base 2 conversion. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
