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 ...

Because it allows you to separate strings that use bytes from strings that use Unicode already in Python 2, and to continue that explicit difference when you get to Python 3 as well. I should add that ...

from string.templatelib import Template, Interpolation string.templatelib is a new module in the standard library for Python 3.14 that holds the types we need: Template for the type hint to the ...