FIOC HELP

Is there any way to convert a binary string to a bignum integer directly? For example "abcde" to 418262508645

Of course this can be done by summing the ord() of each character and shifting by 8 in each step. But that's obnoxious. I just want it to interpret the binary data directly as a number.

either sum it in a loop or write a C module. or give up.

def f(x): return sum((ord(c)<<y*8) for y,c in enumerate(reversed(x)))

>>3
Of course this can be done by summing the ord() of each character and shifting by 8 in each step.