[Verba] Re: Nemesis Coding: Taylor's solution completed

[Stuart D. Gathman]

I have attached a completed version of Taylor's approach.
It is instructive in its own right.

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def decode(s):
  """Decode binary strings to ASCII
  >>> decode('010000100110100101101110011000010111001001111001')
  'Binary'
  """
  n = int(s,2)
  r = []
  while n > 0:
    r.append(chr(n%256))
    n /= 256
  r.reverse()
  return ''.join(r)

def _test():
  import doctest,bin2
  return doctest.testmod(bin2)

# Make into a program that can decode a message from stdin:

if __name__ == '__main__':
  _test()
  import sys
  print decode(sys.stdin.read())