Tim Roberts wrote:
Monica Leko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a specific format and I need binary representation. Does
Python have some built-in function which will, for instance, represent
number 15 in exactly 10 bits?
For the record, I'd like to point out that even C cannot do this. You need
to use shifting and masking to produce a stream of 8-bit bytes, or to
extract your values from a stream of 8-bit bytes.
Hmmmm, bitfields are exactly non-aligned bits in a structure and are
part of ANSI C. Although C gives no guarantee of the ordering of fields
within machine words ... so bitfieds are of limited use in portable
programs unless they are 0-initialized.
IIRC, Huffman code uses arbitrary length bit strings and is the basis of
many compression algorithms.
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