In Python, you can use the int()
method (with a base 2
as the second argument) to convert a binary string to its integer equivalent, for example, like so:
num = int('11000000111001', 2) print(num) #=> 12345
This also works with binary strings that have the "0b
" (or "0B
") binary radix prefix:
# Python 2.6+ num = int('0b11000000111001', 2) print(num) #=> 12345
# Python 2.6+ num = int('0B11000000111001', 2) print(num) #=> 12345
Specifying an invalid binary number would raise the following error:
// ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 2: '0o11111'
int('0o11111', 2)
If the binary string has 0b
(or 0B
) radix prefix, then you may also specify 0
as the second argument (i.e. the base) to the int()
method, which would make it infer the value:
# Python 2.6+ num = int('0b11000000111001', 0) print(num) #=> 12345
This could be useful, for example, if a variable with a number can be of different types (such as binary, octal, hexadecimal, etc.).
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