To convert a string to an integer in Python, use the built-in int() function ... with respect to characters that could represent hexadecimal or other bases. The primary step in converting a ...

and it will take the 1's and 0's to be binary even though its a python integer. i2b(n) -> int2binary, convert integer n to string of 0's and 1's b2h(n) -> binary2hex, convert string of 0's and 1's to ...