It seems RESP v2 and RESP3 do not clearly distinguish between text strings (strings for short) and binary strings, clobs, blobs (binary for short). I might missing something, if so please pardon me.

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 ...