> > Your code does NOT include any statements that could have produced the > above line of output -- IOW, you have not posted the code that you > actually ran.
Oh my, I must have cleaned it up a bit too much, hoping that people would focus on the issue instead of the formatting of the output strings! Did you miss your morning coffee??? > Your code is already needlessly monstrously large. Which I realised and apologised for beforehand. > > And Python 2.5.1 does what? Strike 3. Hmm, I must have missed where it said that you can only ask for help if you're using the latest version... In case you're wondering, 2.5.1 is not _really_ that wide-spread as most of the older versions. > For handling the bit extraction stuff, either [snip] > (b) do a loop over the bit positions Now that sounds more useful. I'll give that a try. Thanks, Jeroen Jeroen Hegeman jeroen DOT hegeman AT gmail DOT com WARNING: This message may contain classified information. Immediately burn this message after reading. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list