Convert string to binary in python

python string binary
user1090614 picture user1090614 · Sep 15, 2013 · Viewed 344.8k times · Source

I am in need of a way to get the binary representation of a string in python. e.g. 

st = "hello world"
toBinary(st)

Is there a module of some neat way of doing this?

Answer

Ashwini Chaudhary picture Ashwini Chaudhary · Sep 15, 2013

Something like this?

>>> st = "hello world"
>>> ' '.join(format(ord(x), 'b') for x in st)
'1101000 1100101 1101100 1101100 1101111 100000 1110111 1101111 1110010 1101100 1100100'

#using `bytearray`
>>> ' '.join(format(x, 'b') for x in bytearray(st, 'utf-8'))
'1101000 1100101 1101100 1101100 1101111 100000 1110111 1101111 1110010 1101100 1100100'

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