I have a string of 1s and 0s that represents a binary number (e.g. '00101101'). How would I convert that to an actual num? If I use int(), Python assumes decimal and creates a number that's much, much ...

One thing to note here is you can also use double triple quotes for multiline strings(""" """ like this). Do you remember I said(ok wrote) there is something called unassigned strings in this post?