printing bit representation of numbers in python

Question

I want to print the bit representation of numbers onto console, so that I can see all operations that are being done on bits itself.

How can I possibly do it in pyth

Answer 1

From Python 2.6 - with the string.format method:

"{0:b}".format(0x1234)

in particular, you might like to use padding, so that multiple prints of different numbers still line up:

"{0:16b}".format(0x1234)

and to have left padding with leading 0s rather than spaces:

"{0:016b}".format(0x1234)

From Python 3.6 - with f-strings:

The same three examples, with f-strings, would be:

f"{0x1234:b}"
f"{0x1234:16b}"
f"{0x1234:016b}"