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 ...

The table below shows the binary-to-decimal-conversion of the value of 500: Thus, 500 10 = 111110100 2. Or, on a digit by digit basis in base 2: 500 = (256 + 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 0 + 4 + 0 + 0) There ...