Convert an integer to binary without using the built-in bin function

Question

This function receives as a parameter an integer and should return a list representing the same value expressed in binary as a list of bits, where the first element in the l

Answer 1

You can first use the format function to get a binary string like your current function. For e.g the following snippet creates a binary string of 8 bits corresponding to integer 58.

>>>u = format(58, "08b")
'00111010'

Now iterate the string to convert each bit to an int to get your desired list of bits encoded as integers.

>>>[int(d) for d in u]
[0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0]