Converting binary to string

Question

I need to convert: 1010100 1101000 1101001 1110011 100000 1101001 1110011 100000 1100001 100000 1110011 1110100 1110010 1101001 1101110 1100111 to string. I've converted string to binary

text2 = 'This is a string'
res = ' '.join(format(ord(i), 'b') for i in text2)

print(res)

#output:
1010100 1101000 1101001 1110011 100000 1101001 1110011 100000 1100001 100000 1110011 1110100 1110010 1101001 1101110 1100111

And now I've problem to converting it back to string, chr gives me some asian characters:

c = ' '.join(chr(int(val)) for val in res.split(' '))

print(c)
#output:
󶦴 􌳈 􌳉 􎿻 𘚠 􌳉 􎿻 𘚠 􌣡 𘚠 􎿻 􏁔 􎿺 􌳉 􌴶 􌥏

Then I try binascii but also not working:

l = res.split()
print(l)
for i in l:
    print (binascii.b2a_uu(bytes(i, 'utf-8')))
    output:
    b"',3 Q,#$P,   \n"
    b"',3$P,3 P,   \n"
    b"',3$P,3 P,0  \n"
    b"',3$Q,# Q,0  \n"
    b'&,3 P,# P\n'
    b"',3$P,3 P,0  \n"
    b"',3$Q,# Q,0  \n"
    b'&,3 P,# P\n'
    b"',3$P,# P,0  \n"
    b'&,3 P,# P\n'
    b"',3$Q,# Q,0  \n"
    b"',3$Q,#$P,   \n"
    b"',3$Q,# Q,   \n"
    b"',3$P,3 P,0  \n"
    b"',3$P,3$Q,   \n"
    b"',3$P,#$Q,0  \n"

@ScottHunter You can see the output, it's still not 'This is a string'. — Ziggy Witkowski
– Ziggy Witkowski, Commented Feb 4, 2021 at 3:00

Chris · Accepted Answer · 2021-02-04 03:28:41Z

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You need to set the base for int:

''.join(chr(int(val, 2)) for val in res.split(' '))

Output:

'This is a string'

answered Feb 4, 2021 at 3:28

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Ziggy Witkowski Over a year ago

What actually is this base "2"? I try to find more info to find out but can't find out.

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