How do I get the bits from a byte in golang?

Question

I'm trying to compute the Hamming distance between two byte's, such that

HammingDist(byte(255), byte(0)) == 8

I need the bits in each byte, but I can't find any function in any of the built-in packages for doing so. So, given byte(1) how do I get the bit representation 00000001?

Answer 1

You can simply do:

fmt.Printf("%08b", YourNumber)

You can also use %016b or %032b or any other.