Python: Number Conversion Chart

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Ever forget how to take a hex string like "2D" and convert it into binary data? Or how to parse an ascii-binary string like "101101" into a plain integer? Me too.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://amir.rachum.com/blog/2013/04/20/python-number-conversion-chart/
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I forked this to compare it to Scala - https://gist.github.com/chris-... - but I'm not sure what "\x00\x00\x00\x2d" is supposed to be. What is this encoding (and why would you want it?)

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don't think it matters for most of these

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big/little endian integers. 4 bytes each.