On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Νικόλαος Κούρας <supp...@superhost.gr> wrote: > On 13/6/2013 10:58 πμ, Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:42 PM, �������� ������ <supp...@superhost.gr> >> wrote: >> >>> On 13/6/2013 10:11 ��, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>>> >>>> No! That creates a string from 16474 in base two: >>>> '0b100000001011010' >>> >>> >>> I disagree here. >>> 16474 is a number in base 10. Doing bin(16474) we get the binary >>> representation of number 16474 and not a string. >>> Why you say we receive a string while python presents a binary number? >> >> >> You can disagree all you like. Steven cited a simple point of fact, >> one which can be verified in any Python interpreter. Nikos, you are >> flat wrong here; bin(16474) creates a string. > > > Indeed python embraced it in single quoting '0b100000001011010' and not as > 0b100000001011010 which in fact makes it a string. > > But since bin(16474) seems to create a string rather than an expected > number(at leat into my mind) then how do we get the binary representation of > the number 16474 as a number?
In Python 2: >>> 16474 In Python 3, you have to fiddle around with ctypes, but broadly speaking, the same thing. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
