Introduction

The binary and decimal number systems are important concepts in Mathematics, Computer Science and Digital electronics. And in almost all programming languages, we have some functions which help us convert numbers from one system to the other and vice versa. Python is no different. We have a few ways in which we can achieve this. Let us explore them.

Binary to decimal

We can use the int() function with two arguments, first the string representation of the binary number and the second argument is the base, in this case 2.

Example:

n = '01100110'
print(f"The decimal representation of {n} is {int(n, 2)}")

will output

The decimal representation of 01100110 is 102

Decimal to binary

Python has the bin() function which takes in a decimal integer and returns a string representation of its binary form

This string is preceded by '0b' which can be removed by the replace() method

Example:

m = 18
print(f"{m} in binary is {bin(m).replace('0b', '')}")

this will print

18 in binary is 10010

We can also convert decimal to binary with the help of a format specifier, like

p = 4
print('{0:b}'.format(p))

will print 100

That is it for this article. Hope you found this helpful. Please share your thoughts in the comments below.