Convert integer to binary in python and compare the bits -

how convert int n binary , test each bit of resulting binary number?

i have got following after lot of googling:

def check_bit_positions(n, p1, p2):     print int(str(n),2)

however error invalid literal int() base 2. let me know how can binary form of input number , test each bit @ position p1 , p2

edit:

binary = '{0:b}'.format(n) if list(binary)[p1] == list(binary)[p2]:      print "true"  else:      print "false"

the above code works now, how can check postions p1 , p2 end of list?

use bin() function:

>>> bin(5) '0b101'

or str.format:

>>> '{0:04b}'.format(5) '0101'

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