[Verba] Nemesis Coding

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006, Taylor Solomon wrote:

> So I have got this
> 
> i = int('010000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001', 0)
> 
> chr(i)
> 
> What am I doing wrong?

Perhaps you meant this:
i = int('010000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001', 2)

That will convert the binary string to a (large) number.  That large
number will then need to be decomposed base 256 to get the 8 bit bytes
that can be converted to characters.

My solution splits the binary string into 8 bit pieces first.  Either
way will work.  I'll post my solution after you've chewed it over a bit
more.

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