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

Slightly off-topic, but might be helpful. For better user-friendly printing I would use custom print function, define representation characters and group spacing for better readability. Here is an example function, it takes a list/array and the group width:

def bprint(A, grp):
    for x in A:
        brp = "{:08b}".format(x)
        L=[]
        for i,b in enumerate(brp):
            if b=="1":
                L.append("k")
            else: 
                L.append("-")
            if (i+1)%grp ==0 :
                L.append(" ")

        print "".join(L) 

#run
A = [0,1,2,127,128,255]
bprint (A,4)

Output:

---- ----
---- ---k
---- --k-
-kkk kkkk
k--- ----
kkkk kkkk