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 ... binascii.a2b_uu(string) function ...

We knew that you could use Python to convert between decimal, hexadecimal, and binary. But we failed to make the leap to using it for troubleshooting bit-wise operations.