binary_from_to_ascii.py

def ascii_to_binary(ascii_text):
    binary_text = ''
    for c in ascii_text:
      binary_text += bin(ord(c))[2:].zfill(8)
    
    return binary_text
    

def binary_to_ascii(binary_text):
    return ''.join(chr(int(binary_text[i:i+8], 2)) for i in xrange(0, len(binary_text), 8))
    
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    my_ascii = "Hello, world!"
    my_binary = ascii_to_binary(my_ascii)
    print "The binary of '{}' is '{}'".format(my_ascii, my_binary)
    
    binary_text = '010001110110010101100101011010110111001100001101'
    ascii_text = binary_to_ascii(binary_text)
    print "The reverse ascii of '{}' is '{}'".format(binary_text, ascii_text)