It might have to do with Python 3 removing the classic int type and moving all int operations to longs. If you compare Python2's Objects/intobject.c's i_divmod() function to Python3's ...

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, much ...