int to binary conversion

def pad(x, count): ##Adds leading 0s to the start of the string to match the count given
    while len(x) < count:
        x = ("0%s"%x)
    return x
def bit_count(x): ##returns a standard binary count number (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 etc...)
    bits = 1;
    while bits < len(x):
        bits = bits*2
    return bits
def bin_to_int(x): ##converts binary string to int
    return int(x, 2)

byte = "{0:b}".format(int(raw_input("Enter Number:"))) ##converts int input into binary string
print("This is a %s bit number." %bit_count(byte))
print(pad(byte, bit_count(byte)))
print(bin_to_int(byte))