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Function defined in library builtins

bin(number)

binnumber

Returns the binary representation of an integer as a string.

The binary number starts with the prefix '0b' so that the resulting string is a valid numeric literal in Python.

numberinteger number to convert to binary

Binary representation of the integer
Code
bin(3)
Result
'0b11'
Code
bin(-3)
Result
'-0b11'

See also bin in the official documentation

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