> Hi Kipp, > > I'd say don't bother pack()ing. At the moment, I think the > function pretty much s**ks. use eval() instead. The > following doesn't have that one-liner compactness of the > others, but it shows you what is going on. The bitwise & > does a real cute little trick with its operands, evaluating > them in hex context or digit-by-digit (I can't tell which, > and the two may be functionally indistinguishable.) > Therefore I got results like 192 & 255 = 010 [the nine and > five match on the 0 bit, no other digits match any bits with > their corresponding digit in the other number.
well, the reason i posted the question was to avoid bit twiddling (because I was in a hurry and lazy ;) ). but since you have provided impressive and working code, i might as well use it :-) Thanks Joseph and Happy hollidays Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
