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I am not completely sure about your question (please provide more details if i do not understand correctly), but you can transform the string '1000' into the list of its letters as follows:

sage: list(a.binary())
['1', '0', '0', '0']

Note however that each entry is a string, not an integer. If you want a list of integers, you can transform each letter into an element of ZZ:

sage: [ZZ(i) for i in a.binary()]
[1, 0, 0, 0]

I am not completely sure about your question (please provide more details if i do not understand correctly), but you can transform the string '1000' into the list of its letters as follows:

sage: list(a.binary())
['1', '0', '0', '0']

Note however that each entry is a string, not an integer. If you want a list of integers, you can transform each letter into an element of ZZ:

sage: [ZZ(i) for i in a.binary()]
[1, 0, 0, 0]

sage: a.bits()
[0, 0, 0, 1]

sage: a.digits(base=2)
[0, 0, 0, 1]