Write a function named binary_to_decimal(binary_str) that takes in an eight-bit binary number as a string (e.g., "00001011") and returns the decimal equivalent as an integer. Constraints: You should ...

The numbers that we use every day is called decimal number. A decimal number could have any of the 10 digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4,5 6, 7, 8, 9). Hence, 232, 789, 176, 511 ...

We knew that you could use Python to convert between decimal, hexadecimal, and binary. But we failed to make the leap to using it for troubleshooting bit-wise operations.