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

Just sharing a function that processes an array of ints:

def to_binary_string(x):
    length = len(bin(max(x))[2:])

    for i in x:
        b = bin(i)[2:].zfill(length)

        yield [int(n) for n in b]

Test:

x1 = to_binary_string([1, 2, 3])
x2 = to_binary_string([1, 2, 3, 4])

print(list(x1)) # [[0, 1], [1, 0], [1, 1]]
print(list(x2)) # [[0, 0, 1], [0, 1, 0], [0, 1, 1], [1, 0, 0]]