Python int to binary string?

Question

Are there any canned Python methods to convert an Integer (or Long) into a binary string in Python?

There are a myriad of dec2bin() functions out on Google... But I

Answer 1

here is simple solution using the divmod() fucntion which returns the reminder and the result of a division without the fraction.

def dectobin(number):
    bin = ''
    while (number >= 1):
        number, rem = divmod(number, 2)
        bin = bin + str(rem)
    return bin