Convert bytes to bits in python

Question

I am working with Python3.2. I need to take a hex stream as an input and parse it at bit-level. So I used

bytes.fromhex(input_str)

to convert t

Answer 1

Use ord when reading reading bytes:

byte_binary = bin(ord(f.read(1))) # Add [2:] to remove the "0b" prefix

Or

Using str.format():

'{:08b}'.format(ord(f.read(1)))