Handling of byte data after converting it to bits in Python

Question

Could somebody help me with converting 7 byte of data into binary value in Python?

The server receives a 7 byte data using MQTT and I want to convert this data into binary, break it down and extract specific lengths of bits from this data in Python for further handling.

If I received:

810be320cab3d

I want to convert it to:

1000000100001011111000110010000011001010101100111101

store this in a variable, then later break this value down into a couple of piece so I can slice the value using str() or truncate(), I hope.

Answer 1

Here's a simple way:

data = '810be320cab3d'

bits = { '0':'0000', '1':'0001', '2':'0010', '3':'0011'
         '4':'0100', '5':'0101', '6':'0110', '7':'0111',
         '8':'1000', '9':'1001', 'a':'1010', 'b':'1011',
         'c':'1100', 'd':'1101', 'e':'1110', 'f':'1111' }

def main():
    r = ""
    for c in data:
        r += bits[c]
    print r

main()

Output:

1000000100001011111000110010000011001010101100111101