How do I convert decimals to binary and binary to decimals in Python without bin and int statements ?

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I need to convert decimals to binary and binary to decimals but i get all the time wrong answers. I am not allowed to use bin and other built in statements in Pycharm that could help me to convert answer.

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"""Converter."""


def dec_to_binary(dec: int) -> str:
    """
    Convert decimal number into binary.

    :param dec: decimal number to convert
    :return: number in binary
    """
    if dec > 1:
        dec_to_binary(dec // 2)
        print(dec % 2, end='')
        return
def binary_to_dec(binary: str) -> int:
    """
    Convert binary number into decimal.

    :param binary: binary number to convert
    :return: number in decimal
    """
    decimal, i, n = 0, 0, 0
    while (binary != 0):
        dec = binary % 10
        decimal = decimal + dec * pow(2, i)
        binary = binary // 10
        i += 1
    print(decimal)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(dec_to_binary(145))  # -> 10010001
    print(dec_to_binary(245))  # -> 11110101
    print(dec_to_binary(255))  # -> 11111111

    print(binary_to_dec("1111"))  # -> 15
    print(binary_to_dec("10101"))  # -> 21
    print(binary_to_dec("10010"))  # -> 18

What I have tried:

I have tried these codes but i usually get 2 decimals working, in the end it says for example 100011 and None...

Posted 11-Sep-19 9:44am

martinfilikas

Updated 11-Sep-19 22:55pm

Patrice T

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Patrice T · Answer 1 · 2019-09-11T12:29:00

Sure, I can just give you a full blowup solution, but I am not sure you will learn something. As it is very basic understanding of Python and programming, I think it is better to give you leads and a link to a good tutorial.

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# Because of
    print(dec_to_binary(145))  # -> 10010001
# and
    print(binary_to_dec("1111"))  # -> 15
# you need to define functions with "return values" instead of print the partial result

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 2 · 2019-09-11T22:56:00

Try the following. You may need to modify some part of it to meet your own criteria, but it does the basics.

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def binary_to_dec(binary: str) -> int:
    """
    Uses the ord() builtin to get the numeric value of a character
    Subtracting the ord('0') gets the integer value of the digit
    """
    tot = 0;
    for i in binary[:]:
        num = ord(i) - ord('0')
        tot *= 2
        tot += num
    return tot

def dec_to_binary(dec: int) -> str:
    """
    Adds the ord('0') to 0 or 1 to get the value of the digit
    and uses the chr() builtin to convert back to a character
    """
    bin = ""
    while dec != 0:
        num = (dec & 1) + ord('0')
        bin = chr(num) + bin
        dec >>= 1
    return bin

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