Reading in integer from stdin in Python

Question

I have the following piece of code where I take in an integer n from stdin, convert it to binary, reverse the binary string, then convert back to integer and output it.

import sys

def reversebinary():
  n = str(raw_input())
  bin_n = bin(n)[2:]
  revbin = "".join(list(reversed(bin_n)))
  return int(str(revbin),2)

reversebinary()

However, I'm getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):   
File "reversebinary.py", line 18, in <module>
  reversebinary()   
File "reversebinary.py", line 14, in reversebinary
   bin_n = bin(n)[2:] 
TypeError: 'str' object cannot be interpreted as an index

I'm unsure what the problem is.

Martijn Pieters · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-31 23:35:42Z

9

You are passing a string to the bin() function:

>>> bin('10')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'str' object cannot be interpreted as an index

Give it a integer instead:

>>> bin(10)
'0b1010'

by turning the raw_input() result to int():

n = int(raw_input())

Tip: you can easily reverse a string by giving it a negative slice stride:

>>> 'forward'[::-1]
'drawrof'

so you can simplify your function to:

def reversebinary():
    n = int(raw_input())
    bin_n = bin(n)[2:]
    revbin = bin_n[::-1]
    return int(revbin, 2)

or even:

def reversebinary():
    n = int(raw_input())
    return int(bin(n)[:1:-1], 2)

edited May 31, 2013 at 23:35

answered May 31, 2013 at 23:30

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James Holderness · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-31 23:30:42Z

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You want to convert the input to an integer not a string - it's already a string. So this line:

n = str(raw_input())

should be something like this:

n = int(raw_input())

answered May 31, 2013 at 23:30

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Mike Müller · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-31 23:32:04Z

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It is raw input, i.e. a string but you need an int:

bin_n = bin(int(n))

answered May 31, 2013 at 23:32

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Tomáš Diviš · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-31 23:35:47Z

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bin takes integer as parameter and you are putting string there, you must convert to integer:

import sys

def reversebinary():
  n = int(raw_input())
  bin_n = bin(n)[2:]
  revbin = "".join(list(reversed(bin_n)))
  return int(str(revbin),2)

reversebinary()

answered May 31, 2013 at 23:35

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