Ascii binary decoder

bin_to_ascii.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

def chunk(s):
  if s == "": return []
  elif len(s) < 8: return [s]
  else: return [s[:8]] + chunk(s[8:])

def decode(bin):
  chars = [ chr(int(x, 2)) for x in chunk(bin) ]
  return "".join(chars)


message = "0101001101101111001000000111010001110010011101010110010100101110"
print decode(message)