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Mark Dufour
Hi all,
I need to convert an integer into some binary representation. I found the
following code in the online cookbook (adapted to return a list):
binary = lambda n: n>0 and [n&1]+binary(n>>1) or []
This is sure nice, but I'm wondering why something like this doesn't seem to
be in the standard library, for example by formatting with '%b' % number. I
can't think of a any reason for not doing it this way, as working with binary
representations is quite common in programming, but I guess I'm not a
language designer.. (just yet
) Or is there another nice way of doing this
which I overlooked?
Thanks,
Mark Dufour.
I need to convert an integer into some binary representation. I found the
following code in the online cookbook (adapted to return a list):
binary = lambda n: n>0 and [n&1]+binary(n>>1) or []
This is sure nice, but I'm wondering why something like this doesn't seem to
be in the standard library, for example by formatting with '%b' % number. I
can't think of a any reason for not doing it this way, as working with binary
representations is quite common in programming, but I guess I'm not a
language designer.. (just yet
) Or is there another nice way of doing this which I overlooked?
Thanks,
Mark Dufour.