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Python Python Testing Be Assertive Membership and Other Assertions

Posted by john larson
john larson
16,594 Points

What is the situation here, that we might need to convert a binary string to an integer?

I was looking up what the dunder functions do in this lesson. 

__int__(self)

will convert a binary string to an integer. Why would we be getting a binary string? In what situations? Do we always need to expect we might get a binary string? Thanks :D

john larson
john larson
16,594 Points

Thanks Ty. If you move that to an answer instead of a comment I'll give you a "Best"

1 Answer

neoty888
neoty888
23,973 Points
neoty888
neoty888
23,973 Points

This is a very interesting question. Two things come to mind would possibly be in compression algorithms and/or creating device drivers. I have no experience writing either, but I imagine anything that will utilize binary would be used in some sort application dealing with communicating with a device on the machine level, and for compression, having to decompress/compress files.

john larson
john larson
16,594 Points

Thank you Ty.