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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 01:04:22 -0700
Subject: Re: How to convert base 10 to base 2?
From: Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu>
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:50 AM,  <gianpycea@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> as you can argue from the subject, i'm really,really new to python.
> What is the best way to achieve that with python? Because the syntax int('30',2) doesn't seem to work!

That syntax goes the other way- from a string representing a number in
the given base into an integer (which doesn't have a base, although
it's stored in base 2).

You get the binary by doing bin(x), where x is an integer.

>>> bin(12)
'0b1100'

If you want to go from a string in base-10 to a string in base-2, you
have to do the conversion to integer first.

>>> bin(int('5',10))
'0b101'

Although you don't need to specify the 10 because that's the default.
>>> bin(int('5'))
'0b101'