How to convert a number to binary?

[Lyosha]

Converting binary to base 10 is easy:

>>int('11111111', 2)

255

Converting base 10 number to hex or octal is easy:

>>oct(100)

'0144'

>>hex(100)

'0x64'

Is there an *easy* way to convert a number to binary?

[Michael Bentley]

On May 17, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Lyosha wrote:

Converting binary to base 10 is easy:

>>>int('11111111', 2)

255

Converting base 10 number to hex or octal is easy:

>>>oct(100)

'0144'

>>>hex(100)

'0x64'

Is there an *easy* way to convert a number to binary?

def to_base(number, base):
'converts base 10 integer to another base'

number = int(number)
base = int(base)
if base < 2 or base 36:
raise ValueError, "Base must be between 2 and 36"
if not number:
return 0

symbols = string.digits + string.lowercase[:26]
answer = []
while number:
number, remainder = divmod(number, base)
answer.append(symbols[remainder])
return ''.join(reversed(answer))

Hope this helps,
Michael

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crocodile than use Java." — Trouser

[Lyosha]

On May 17, 4:40 pm, Michael Bentley <[e-mail]:

On May 17, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Lyosha wrote:

Converting binary to base 10 is easy:

>>int('11111111', 2)

255

Converting base 10 number to hex or octal is easy:

>>oct(100)

'0144'

>>hex(100)

'0x64'

Is there an *easy* way to convert a number to binary?

def to_base(number, base):
'converts base 10 integer to another base'

number = int(number)
base = int(base)
if base < 2 or base 36:
raise ValueError, "Base must be between 2 and 36"
if not number:
return 0

symbols = string.digits + string.lowercase[:26]
answer = []
while number:
number, remainder = divmod(number, base)
answer.append(symbols[remainder])
return ''.join(reversed(answer))

Hope this helps,
Michael

That's way too complicated... Is there any way to convert it to a one-
liner so that I can remember it? Mine is quite ugly:
"".join(str((n/base**i) % base) for i in range(20) if n>=base**i)
[::-1].zfill(1)

[mensanator]

On May 17, 6:45 pm, Lyosha <[e-mail]:

On May 17, 4:40 pm, Michael Bentley <[e-mail]:

On May 17, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Lyosha wrote:

Converting binary to base 10 is easy:
>>>int('11111111', 2)
255

Converting base 10 number to hex or octal is easy:
>>>oct(100)
'0144'
>>>hex(100)
'0x64'

Is there an *easy* way to convert a number to binary?

def to_base(number, base):
'converts base 10 integer to another base'

number = int(number)
base = int(base)
if base < 2 or base 36:
raise ValueError, "Base must be between 2 and 36"
if not number:
return 0

symbols = string.digits + string.lowercase[:26]
answer = []
while number:
number, remainder = divmod(number, base)
answer.append(symbols[remainder])
return ''.join(reversed(answer))

Hope this helps,
Michael

That's way too complicated... Is there any way to convert it to a one-
liner so that I can remember it? Mine is quite ugly:
"".join(str((n/base**i) % base) for i in range(20) if n>=base**i)
[::-1].zfill(1)-

Get the gmpy module (note inconsistencies involving octal and hex):

>>import gmpy
for base in xrange(2,37): print gmpy.digits(255,base)

11111111
100110
3333
2010
1103
513
0377
313
255
212
193
168
143
120
0xff
f0
e3
d8
cf
c3
bd
b2
af
a5
9l
9c
93
8n
8f
87
7v
7o
7h
7a
73

[Michael Bentley]

On May 17, 2007, at 6:45 PM, Lyosha wrote:

On May 17, 4:40 pm, Michael Bentley <[e-mail]:

>On May 17, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Lyosha wrote:

>>Converting binary to base 10 is easy:
>int('11111111', 2)
255

>>Converting base 10 number to hex or octal is easy:
>oct(100)
'0144'
>hex(100)
'0x64'

>>Is there an *easy* way to convert a number to binary?

def to_base(number, base):
'converts base 10 integer to another base'

number = int(number)
base = int(base)
if base < 2 or base 36:
raise ValueError, "Base must be between 2 and 36"
if not number:
return 0

symbols = string.digits + string.lowercase[:26]
answer = []
while number:
number, remainder = divmod(number, base)
answer.append(symbols[remainder])
return ''.join(reversed(answer))

Hope this helps,
Michael

That's way too complicated... Is there any way to convert it to a
one-
liner so that I can remember it? Mine is quite ugly:
"".join(str((n/base**i) % base) for i in range(20) if n>=base**i)
[::-1].zfill(1)

to_base(number, 2) is too complicated?

[Paul McGuire]

On May 17, 6:45 pm, Lyosha <[e-mail]:

That's way too complicated... Is there any way to convert it to a one-
liner so that I can remember it? Mine is quite ugly:
"".join(str((n/base**i) % base) for i in range(20) if n>=base**i)[::-1].zfill(1)

Howzis?

"".join(map(str,[ int(bool(n & 2**i)) for i in range(20) if n>2**i ]
[::-1]))

Uses:
- integer & to test for bit high or low, returns 2**i
- bool(int) to evaluate boolean value of integers - zero -False,
nonzero -True
- int(bool) to convert True->1 and False->0

-- Paul

[Paul McGuire]

On May 17, 6:45 pm, Lyosha <[e-mail]:

That's way too complicated... Is there any way to convert it to a one-
liner so that I can remember it? Mine is quite ugly:
"".join(str((n/base**i) % base) for i in range(20) if n>=base**i)[::-1].zfill(1)

Howzis?

"".join(map(str,[ int(bool(n & 2**i)) for i in range(20) if n>2**i ]
[::-1]))

Uses:
- integer & to test for bit high or low, returns 2**i
- bool(int) to evaluate boolean value of integers - zero -False,
nonzero -True
- int(bool) to convert True->1 and False->0

-- Paul

[Paul McGuire]

"".join([('0','1')[bool(n & 2**i)] for i in range(20) if n>2**i]
[::-1])

Still only valid up to 2**20, though.

-- Paul

[Stargaming]

Lyosha schrieb:

On May 17, 4:40 pm, Michael Bentley <[e-mail]:

>>On May 17, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Lyosha wrote:

>>>Converting binary to base 10 is easy:

>>int('11111111', 2)

255

>>>Converting base 10 number to hex or octal is easy:

>>oct(100)

'0144'

>>hex(100)

'0x64'

>>>Is there an *easy* way to convert a number to binary?

def to_base(number, base):
'converts base 10 integer to another base'

number = int(number)
base = int(base)
if base < 2 or base 36:
raise ValueError, "Base must be between 2 and 36"
if not number:
return 0

symbols = string.digits + string.lowercase[:26]
answer = []
while number:
number, remainder = divmod(number, base)
answer.append(symbols[remainder])
return ''.join(reversed(answer))

Hope this helps,
Michael

That's way too complicated... Is there any way to convert it to a one-
liner so that I can remember it? Mine is quite ugly:
"".join(str((n/base**i) % base) for i in range(20) if n>=base**i)
[::-1].zfill(1)

Wrote this a few moons ago::

dec2bin = lambda x: (dec2bin(x/2) + str(x%2)) if x else ''

Regards,
Stargaming

[Ben Finney]

Lyosha <ly*****@gmail.comwrites:

On May 17, 4:40 pm, Michael Bentley <[e-mail]:

On May 17, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Lyosha wrote:

Is there an *easy* way to convert a number to binary?

def to_base(number, base):
[function definition]

Hope this helps,
Michael

That's way too complicated... Is there any way to convert it to a
one- liner so that I can remember it?

You put in a module so you don't *have* to remember it.

Then, you use it in this one-liner:

foo = to_base(15, 2)

Carrying a whole lot of one-liners around in your head is a waste of
neurons. Neurons are far more valuable than disk space, screen lines,
or CPU cycles.

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`\ said in Latin, sounds profound.") -- Anonymous |
_o__) |
Ben Finney

[Lyosha]

On May 17, 11:04 pm, Stargaming <[e-mail]:
[...]

>>Is there an *easy* way to convert a number to binary?

[...]

>
Wrote this a few moons ago::

dec2bin = lambda x: (dec2bin(x/2) + str(x%2)) if x else ''

This is awesome. Exactly what I was looking for. Works for other
bases too.

I guess the reason I couldn't come up with something like this was
being brainwashed that lambda is a no-no.

And python2.5 funky ?: expression comes in handy!

Thanks a lot!

[Lyosha]

On May 17, 11:10 pm, Ben Finney <[e-mail]>
wrote:
[...]

That's way too complicated... Is there any way to convert it to a
one- liner so that I can remember it?

You put in a module so you don't *have* to remember it.

Then, you use it in this one-liner:

foo = to_base(15, 2)

Carrying a whole lot of one-liners around in your head is a waste of
neurons. Neurons are far more valuable than disk space, screen lines,
or CPU cycles.

While I agree with this general statement, I think remembering a
particular one-liner to convert a number to a binary is more valuable
to my brain than remembering where I placed the module that contains
this function.

I needed the one-liner not to save disk space or screen lines. It's
to save time, should I need to convert to binary when doing silly
little experiments. I would spend more time getting the module
wherever it is I stored it (and rewriting it if it got lost).

It's fun, too.

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Lyosha <ly*****@gmail.comwrote:

On May 17, 11:04 pm, Stargaming <[e-mail]:
[...]

>>>Is there an *easy* way to convert a number to binary?

[...]

Wrote this a few moons ago::

dec2bin = lambda x: (dec2bin(x/2) + str(x%2)) if x else ''

This is awesome. Exactly what I was looking for. Works for other
bases too.

Just don't pass it a negative number ;-)

--
Nick Craig-Wood <ni**@craig-wood.com-- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Lyosha <ly*****@gmail.comwrote:

>On May 17, 11:04 pm, Stargaming <[e-mail]:

> dec2bin = lambda x: (dec2bin(x/2) + str(x%2)) if x else ''

[ ... ]
I guess the reason I couldn't come up with something like this was
being brainwashed that lambda is a no-no.

And python2.5 funky ?: expression comes in handy!

def dec2bin(x): return x and (dec2bin(x/2)+str(x%2)) or ''

does the same job without lambda or Python 2.5 (and note that the
usual warning about a and b or c doesn't apply here as b is
guaranteed to evaluate as true).

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[Steve Holden]

Lyosha wrote:

On May 17, 11:10 pm, Ben Finney <[e-mail]>
wrote:
[...]

>>That's way too complicated... Is there any way to convert it to a
one- liner so that I can remember it?

You put in a module so you don't *have* to remember it.

Then, you use it in this one-liner:

foo = to_base(15, 2)

Carrying a whole lot of one-liners around in your head is a waste of
neurons. Neurons are far more valuable than disk space, screen lines,
or CPU cycles.

While I agree with this general statement, I think remembering a
particular one-liner to convert a number to a binary is more valuable
to my brain than remembering where I placed the module that contains
this function.

I needed the one-liner not to save disk space or screen lines. It's
to save time, should I need to convert to binary when doing silly
little experiments. I would spend more time getting the module
wherever it is I stored it (and rewriting it if it got lost).

It's fun, too.

Id use the "silly little module" even for experiments. Most Python
programmers keep a directory full of such "stock" modules.

regards
Steve

[Cameron Laird]

In article <11*********************@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups. com>,
Lyosha <ly*****@gmail.comwrote: