Bart Ogryczak kirjoitti: > On Mar 1, 7:52 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> It seems like this would be easy but I'm drawing a blank. >> >> What I want to do is be able to open any file in binary mode, and read >> in one byte (8 bits) at a time and then count the number of 1 bits in >> that byte. >> >> I got as far as this but it is giving me strings and I'm not sure how >> to accurately get to the byte/bit level. >> >> f1=file('somefile','rb') >> while 1: >> abyte=f1.read(1) > > import struct > buf = open('somefile','rb').read() > count1 = lambda x: (x&1)+(x&2>0)+(x&4>0)+(x&8>0)+(x&16>0)+(x&32>0)+ > (x&64>0)+(x&128>0) > byteOnes = map(count1,struct.unpack('B'*len(buf),buf)) > > byteOnes[n] is number is number of ones in byte n. > > >
I guess struct.unpack is not necessary, because: byteOnes2 = map(count1, (ord(ch) for ch in buf)) seems to do the trick also. Cheers, Jussi -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list