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zeurosis
zeurosis

Reputation: 183

convert ascii of every character in string to binary

So I'm trying to create a program that takes the individual ascii values of characters in a string of user input, adds 1, and converts that new number to binary.

for example, if the user inputs "abcde" I need the output to be

1100010 1100011 1100100 1100101 1100110

with the binary values separated by spaces like that. Now, what I have so far is 

text = input()
for ch in text:
    new = ord(ch) + 1

    decimal = new
    bitString = ''
    while decimal > 0:
        remainder = decimal % 2
        decimal = decimal // 2
        bitString = str(remainder) + bitString

print(bitString)

which gives me the binary for the last character input (so if the user inputs "abcde" it gives the binary of the ascii value plus 1), but how can I make it do it for all the characters?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 285

Answers (1)

chuck
chuck

Reputation: 1447

You need to declare bitstring as an empty string before the for loop starts, outside of it. Otherwise, it gets emptied every time the loop runs and that's why only the last value is printed. You could use the bin function as well instead of ord, which would immediately give you a binary representation.

Upvotes: 1

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