string to binary python code example

Example 1: char to binary python

>>> st = "hello world"
>>> ' '.join(format(ord(x), 'b') for x in st)
'1101000 1100101 1101100 1101100 1101111 100000 1110111 1101111 1110010 1101100 1100100'

#using `bytearray`
>>> ' '.join(format(x, 'b') for x in bytearray(st, 'utf-8'))
'1101000 1100101 1101100 1101100 1101111 100000 1110111 1101111 1110010 1101100 1100100'

Example 2: convert binary string to base 10 value in python

def getBaseTen(binaryVal):
	count = 0

	#reverse the string
    binaryVal = binaryVal[::-1]

    #go through the list and get the value of all 1's
	for i in range(0, len(binaryVal)):
    	if(binaryVal[i] == "1"):
            count += 2**i
    
    return count