🔒 Python 2 complemented coversion

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Hello, I want to perform 2 complemented conversion from bin hex string.

# First convert the 16 bit number to binary using:
hex_string = "FFFFFFFFFFFFFDBA12"
unsigned_integer = int(hex_string, base=16)  
x = bin(unsigned_integer)

# Then in order to take 2’s complement

x = ~x + 1

# Then finally convert the binary number into decimal using

int(x,2)

I'm getting this error,:
TypeError: bad operand type for unary ~: 'str'

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bin() returns a binary representation as a string, right now x contains '0b111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111011011101000010010' which will throw an error. You might want to try and use the built-in bytes manipulations, for example see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37075643

or something like this https://stackoverflow.com/a/16813345 essentially, work on the binary representation from int(x,2), not the binary string from bin()

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