You see, I don't like reading some tutorials. I pick myself a problem and look for ways to slove it. I am using Python for about 2 years, but mostly for image processing. As you say, ord is oposite to chr. I learn by example.
thnx guys, this looks great On 9 kol, 16:47, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > azrael wrote: > > looks nice. is there an oposite function of ord() so I could also > > bring a binary number also back to ascii. > > > the speed matters if you plan to exchange about 10 M ascii chars and > > don't wont to wait a year for the results. :) > > > On 9 kol, 15:39, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Aug 9, 11:18 pm, azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> Hy folks, > >>> I googled, and searched, and can not bealive that I have not found a > >>> built in way to convert the easy and elegant python way a function to > >>> easily convert simple ascii data to binary and back. > >>> I've written some my own but they were pretty slow using binascii > >>> linbrary with hexifly and unhexifly functions conbined with a > >>> lookuptable of binary and hex values. > >>> 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") > >> Here's one way: > > >>>>> def a2b(a): > >> ... ai = ord(a) > >> ... return ''.join('01'[(ai >> x) & 1] for x in xrange(7, -1, -1)) > >> ... > > >>>>> a2b('1') > >> '00110001' > >>>>> a2b('2') > >> '00110010' > >>>>> a2b(chr(0)) > >> '00000000' > >>>>> a2b(chr(255)) > >> '11111111' > > >> BUT ... why are you doing this so much that the speed matters??? > > Opposite of ord() is chr(). These functions have been available in every > language I've used for the last 30 years. I would suggest that you might want > to spend a little time reading a good Python book and to work through the > tutorial. It will be worth your investment of time. > > -Larry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list