converting binary to text python

Question

I used this line of code to turn text into binary and I can't seem to find a way to take the binary from this and turn it back to text. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

' '.join(format(ord(x), 'b') for x in contents)

Hello world 1001000 1100101 1101100 1101100 1101111 100000 1110111 1101111 1110010 1101100 1100100 — Max, Jan 12 '18 at 04:29
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7396849/convert-binary-to-ascii-and-vice-versa — Jesse, Jan 12 '18 at 04:31
Then, Id like to be able to take the output and convert it back to the input. — Max, Jan 12 '18 at 04:31

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 12 '18 at 04:33

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Works in Python 3.6:

b = ' '.join(format(ord(x), 'b') for x in contents)    
''.join([chr(int(bc, 2)) for bc in b.split(' ')])

answered Jan 12 '18 at 04:33

Armandas

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '18 at 04:35

Not sure what's your problem, works for me:

out = ' '.join(format(ord(x), 'b') for x in "Hello world")
print(out)

1001000 1100101 1101100 1101100 1101111 100000 1110111 1101111 1110010 1101100 1100100

If you are asking for how to revert:

revert = ''.join([chr(int(s, 2)) for s in out.split()])
print(revert)

Hello world

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 19 '22 at 17:30

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for python 3 this code is working

    binstr = '00100110 00010010'
    s = []
    for i in binstr.split(' '):
        s.append(chr(int(i)))
    print(''.join(s))

answered Mar 19 '22 at 17:30

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converting binary to text python

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