printing bit representation of numbers in python

Question

I want to print the bit representation of numbers onto console, so that I can see all operations that are being done on bits itself.

How can I possibly do it in python?

Answer 1

This kind of thing?

>>> ord('a') 97 >>> hex(ord('a')) '0x61' >>> bin(ord('a')) '0b1100001' 

Answer 2

In Python 2.6+:

print bin(123) 

Results in:

0b1111011 

In python 2.x

>>> binary = lambda n: n>0 and [n&1]+binary(n>>1) or [] >>> binary(123) [1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1] 

^{Note, example taken from: "Mark Dufour" at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2003-December/240914.html}