[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> yeah, i think i got that down, i need help with getting the hex to
> binary, then splitting the byte up to compare each bit against the bit
> in another byte.
The & operator does all 8 comparisons simultaneously. So if
the serial port byte is A, the reference byte is B then
AB = A & B
has only 1 bits where both A and B had 1's in their respective
positions. Now, you can test AB for a particular bit position
(say bit 3) by
testbit3 = AB & 2**3
If testbit3 > 0 then the bit was a 1.
> unless i am not understanding this stuff with the bitwise right. there
> wasn't a lot in the python library reference about it.
The GMPY module has some interesting bit functions.
Popcount can tell you how many of the AB bits are 1 without
specifying which ones:
>>> for i in range(16):
print gmpy.popcount(i),
0 1 1 2 1 2 2 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 3 4
Hamming distance tells you how many bits differ between
two numbers (again, without telling you which ones)
>>> for i in range(16):
print gmpy.hamdist(i,7),
3 2 2 1 2 1 1 0 4 3 3 2 3 2 2 1
If one operand is 0, then Hamming distance is the same
as popcount.
And then there's scan1 which will tell you the bit
bit position of the first 1 bit.
>>> A = 48
>>> B = 255
>>> AB = A & B
>>> print gmpy.scan1(AB)
4
So the first 1 bit is bit 4, which means bits 0, 1, 2 and 3
are all 0.
> thanks
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