some python helpers

research/frombase2.py

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+import sys
+
+result = []
+cur_count = 0
+cur_val = 0
+for byte in sys.stdin.read():
+    if byte == '1':
+        cur_val |= (1<<cur_count)
+    elif byte != '0':
+        break
+    cur_count += 1
+    if cur_count == 8:
+        result.append(chr(cur_val))
+        cur_val = 0
+        cur_count = 0
+if cur_count != 0:
+    result.append(chr(cur_val))
+sys.stdout.write(''.join(result))

research/tobase2.py

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+import sys
+result = []
+def reverse(x):
+    return x[::-1]
+    ret = ''
+    for y in reversed(x):
+        ret += y
+    return ret
+for byte in sys.stdin.read():
+    result.append(reverse("{0:#010b}".format(ord(byte)).replace("0b","")))
+print ''.join(result)