A python question for the gurus: How does python 3+ handle integer division? I ported an elliptic curve factorization library to python 3 and it is now running considerably slower then its python ...

I have a string of 1s and 0s that represents a binary number (e.g. '00101101'). How would I convert that to an actual num? If I use int(), Python assumes decimal and creates a number that's much ...