New submission from Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>:
This RFE proposes two new methods "to_signed" and "to_unsigned" on 'int'
objects and on the numbers.Integral ABC.
Semantics (and number.Integral implementation):
def to_unsigned(self, bits):
"Convert this integer to its unsigned two's complement equivalent for the
given bit length"
if self.bit_length() >= bits:
raise ValueError("{} is too large for {}-bit two's complement
precision".format(self, bits))
if self >= 0:
return self
return 2**bits + self # self is known to be negative at this point
def to_signed(self, bits):
"Convert an integer in two's complement format to its signed equivalent for
the given bit length"
if self < 0:
raise ValueError("{} is already signed".format(self))
if self.bit_length() > bits:
raise ValueError("{} is too large for {}-bit two's complement
precision".format(self, bits))
upper_bound = 2**bits
if self < (upper_bound / 2):
return self
return upper_bound - self
To add these methods to numbers.Integral, a concrete
numbers.Integral.bit_length() operation will also be needed. This can be
implemented simply as:
def bit_length(self):
return int(self).bit_length()
(Initial concept from this python-ideas thread:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2011-December/012989.html)
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components: Interpreter Core, Library (Lib)
messages: 148896
nosy: ncoghlan
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Improved two's complement arithmetic support: to_signed() and
to_unsigned()
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.3
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