Convert binary to ASCII and vice versa

Question

Using this code to take a string and convert it to binary:

bin(reduce(lambda x, y: 256*x+y, (ord(c) for c in \'hello\'), 0))

this outputs:<

Answer 1

This is my way to solve your task:

str = "0b110100001100101011011000110110001101111"
str = "0" + str[2:]
message = ""
while str != "":
    i = chr(int(str[:8], 2))
    message = message + i
    str = str[8:]
print message