String to bits python
str = "cde"
str_as_byte_array = bytearray(str, "utf8")
bytes_arr = []
for byte in str_as_byte_array:
binary_representation = bin(byte)
bytes_arr.append(binary_representation)
print(bytes_arr) # ['0b1100011', '0b1100100', '0b1100101']
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