I have a string of 1s and 0s that represents a binary number (e.g. '00101101'). How would I convert that to an actual num? If I use int(), Python assumes decimal and creates a number that's much, much ...

Moving from Python 2 to 3? Here's what you need to know about strings and their role in in your upgrade. An old joke asks "What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual. Two ...

Which program is pickling and why? That seems like a very strange thing to do in this situation. The only time to pickle something is if you need to represent a non-string object on disk, but Python ...