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On Jun 11, 10:29*am, casebash <walkr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, I didn't quite make it clear. The issue isn't about limiting
> the length (as I won't be using integers bigger than this). The
> problem is that sometimes the output is shorter.

Is this what you're looking for?

Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Jun 8 2009, 14:57:27)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin
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>>> '{0:032b}'.format(12345)
'00000000000000000011000000111001'

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