Is there a canonical way to address the bits in a structure like an array or string or struct?
Or alternatively, is there a good way to combine eight ints that represent bits into one of the bytes in some array or string or whatever? It seems to me that there is a dilemma here : if you can write: bit3 = 1 Then you have to jump through hoops to get bit0 through bit7 into some byte that you can send to an i/o routine. On the other hand, if you keep the bits "in" the byte, then you can write: byte[3] = '\x7e' but you have to jump through hoops to get at the individual bits. Is there a "best" way? It would be nice to be able to write: if io.byte2.bit3: do_something() if io.byte2 == alarm_value: do_something_else() where: io.byte2 & 8 "is" io.byte2.bit3 Is this possible? - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
