Python 3.0 has such a formatting operation, but Python 2.x does not. However it's not hard to write.
Indeed. Refraining from using named lambdas:
>>> def bin(x):
... return ''.join(x & (1 << i) and '1' or '0' for i in
... range(7,-1,-1))
...
>>> bin(12)
'00001100'
>>> bin(63)
'00111111'
It would be nice to have str(x, 2) like int(x, 2), but there are bigger
fish in pond.
Joel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
