On Aug 10, 12:37 am, azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [top-posting corrected] > > 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")
>> why are you doing this so much that the speed matters??? > the speed matters if you plan to exchange about 10 M ascii chars and > don't wont to wait a year for the results. :) WHY do you plan to change about 10 M ascii chars into about 90 M bytes? Who or what is going to consume the output? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list